title: Name that tune: Melodic recognition by songbirds.
abstract: Recent findings have indicated that European starlings perceive overall spectral shape and use this, rather than absolute pitch or timbre, to generalize between similar melodic progressions. This finding highlights yet another parallel between human and avian vocal communication systems and has many biological implications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, USA. templeton@pacificu.edu.|School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, UK. templeton@pacificu.edu.
authors.forename: Christopher N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Templeton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001307:Auditory Perception; D020308:Songbirds
keywords: Auditory perception; Avian communication; Melody; Musical cognition