NDLI: Auditory temporal pattern learning by songbirds using maximal stimulus diversity and minimal repetition

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Author	Comins, Jordan A. Gentner, Timothy Q.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The sequential patterning of complex acoustic elements is a salient feature of bird song and other forms of vocal communication. For European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), a songbird species, individual vocal recognition is improved when the temporal organization of song components (called motifs) follows the normal patterns of each singer. This sensitivity to natural motif sequences may underlie observations that starlings can also learn more complex, unnatural motif patterns. Alternatively, it has been proposed that the apparent acquisition of abstract motif patterning rules instead reflects idiosyncrasies of the training conditions used in prior experiments. That is, that motif patterns are learned not by recognizing differences in temporal structures between patterns, but by identifying serendipitous features (e.g., acoustical cues) in the small sets of training and testing stimuli used. Here, we investigate this possibility, by asking whether starlings can learn to discriminate between two arbitrary motif patterns, when unique examples of each pattern are presented on every trial. Our results demonstrate that abstract motif patterning rules can be acquired from trial-unique stimuli and suggest that such training leads to better pattern generalization compared with training with much smaller stimulus subsets.
Starting Page	1023
Ending Page	1030
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14359448
Journal	Animal Cognition
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	14359456
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2014-02-15
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Vocal recognition Pattern learning Auditory cognition Trial-unique stimuli Behavioural Sciences Zoology Human Physiology Evolutionary Biology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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