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spectral shape vs pitch

Subject: spectral shape vs pitch
From: "David Leveille" camforum
Date: Wed Jan 20, 2016 12:51 pm ((PST))
  *   Melodic recognition in songbirds=0D
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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=
sence of pitch.=0D
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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=
. Gentner.=0D
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MEDIA CONTACT: Timothy Q. Gentner, University of California, San Diego, La =
Jolla, CA; tel: 858-822-6763, 858-736-7301; e-mail: <<mail=
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http://www.eurekalert.org/jrnls/pnas/15-15380.htm=0D
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