Species-Specific Perceptual Processing of Vocal Sounds by Monkeys
- 25 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 204 (4395) , 870-873
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.108805
Abstract
Monkeys of four species were trained to discriminate between sets of natural tonal calls of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) by the position of a frequency-inflection peak or by initial pitch. The Japanese macaques consistently performed best on peak position and the other species on pitch. The results imply special strategies for perceptional processing of vocal sounds and suggest parallels with human speech perception.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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