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Researchers report that starlings trained to recognize short tone sequences=
did not recognize the same sequences when the pitches of all tones were un=
iformly shifted from the training sequence, or when the tones were played a=
t the same pitch with an unfamiliar timbre, but that the birds could recogn=
ize sequences that preserved the spectral shape of the tones even in the ab=
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Article #15-15380: =93Songbirds use spectral shape, not pitch, for sound pa=
ttern recognition,=94 by Micah R. Bregman, Aniruddh D. Patel, and Timothy Q=
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