The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

of an anesthetized bird and searching for neurons that were activated when sounds were played.As in the behavioral tests,these f ...

strongly to the songs of one’s own species,but strongest of all to the song of the individual being tested.Presumably the proces ...

Another question suggested from avian studies is whether a sensitive period exists for learning about music.Can we learn the sca ...

Burek,M.J.,Nordeen,K.W.,and Nordeen,E.J.(1991).Neuron loss and addition in devel- oping zebra finch song nuclei are independent ...

Mello,C.V.,Vicario,D.S.,and Clayton,D.F.(1992).Song presentation induces gene expres- sion in the songbird’s forebrain.Proceedin ...

Marc D. Hauser Abstract In this chapter I review work on the mechanisms underlying primate vocal communication, focusing in part ...

This chapter focuses on problems of mechanism.I briefly discuss some traditional views of animal vocal communication,and then sh ...

Each of the vervets’ escape responses is fine-tuned to the hunting skills of the predator.Natural selection favors an acoustic d ...

3.When rhesus hear such calls,how do they classify them? Are natural categories constructed on the basis of the caller’s affecti ...

Although our understanding of the acoustic correlates of affective state in humans is largely restricted to studies of trained a ...

the coconut,he gave two harmonic arches.In contrast to the first panel, this sequence represented a change in call type as well ...

quality.In this sense,rhesus food-associated calls appear to be function- ally referential. With these observations in hand,we t ...

discoverers who failed to call,it is possible that this rhesus population evolved a calling convention:members of a social group ...

switches to a grunt,will the listener’s interest be revived? If interest is revived,is this due to an acoustic or semantic diffe ...

assess whether the subject had habituated to the playback situation in general or to the particular call type.For example,if an ...

87 Primate Vocalizations in Emotion and Thought Figur e 6.4 Results of habituation-discrimination experiments plot changes in me ...

vocalizations may not approach the referential power of our own words, either in terms of the kinds of objects and events that c ...

and in some cases of damage to the left hemisphere,evidence indicates that the right hemisphere can take on a number of signific ...

of the variation resulting from modulations in fundamental frequency contour.For example,coos with one frequency contour pattern ...

played,adults preferentially turned the left ear,whereas infants failed to show bias;the turnstone’s call is familiar to rhesus, ...