This sounds (pun!) interesting. Sadly, though, the paper appears to require
a valid userid and password in order to access it.
Ray
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:51 PM, David Leveille
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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 uniformly shifted from the training sequence, or when the tone=
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> Article #15-15380: =93Songbirds use spectral shape, not pitch, for sound
> pattern recognition,=94 by Micah R. Bregman, Aniruddh D. Patel, and Timot=
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> http://www.eurekalert.org/jrnls/pnas/15-15380.htm
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