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Theses and Dissertations

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2019

Discrimination

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Is There Synergy Between Song Learning And Vocal Stimuli Discrimination Training?, Kenta Watanabe Jun 2019

Is There Synergy Between Song Learning And Vocal Stimuli Discrimination Training?, Kenta Watanabe

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Does auditory discrimination ability predict greater accuracy in imitating song? We investigated this question in zebra finch males by testing if the accuracy of vocal imitation of song syllables relates to auditory discrimination performance. The majority of birds improved on imitating their discriminated syllable pairs over non-discriminated syllable sets.