The perception of regularity in an isochronous stimulus in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) and humans

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Perceiving temporal regularity in an auditory stimulus is considered one of the basic features of musicality. Here we examine whether zebra finches can detect regularity in an isochronous stimulus. Using a go/no go paradigm we show that zebra finches are able to distinguish between an isochronous and an irregular stimulus. However, when the tempo of the isochronous stimulus is changed, it is no longer treated as similar to the training stimulus. Training with three isochronous and three irregular stimuli did not result in improvement of the generalization. In contrast, humans, exposed to the same stimuli, readily generalized across tempo changes. Our results suggest that zebra finches distinguish the different stimuli by learning specific local temporal features of each individual stimulus rather than attending to the global structure of the stimuli, i.e., to the temporal regularity.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:115

Enthalten in:

Behavioural processes - 115(2015) vom: 07. Juni, Seite 37-45

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

van der Aa, Jeroen [VerfasserIn]
Honing, Henkjan [VerfasserIn]
ten Cate, Carel [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Auditory discrimination
Journal Article
Music
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Rhythm
Tempo
Zebra finches

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Date Completed 15.02.2016

Date Revised 10.12.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.beproc.2015.02.018

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM246640480