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ArticleAnimal behaviour2016

Territorial raven pairs are sensitive to structural changes in simulated acoustic displays of conspecifics.

Stephan A Reber, Markus Boeckle, Georgine Szipl, Judith Janisch, Thomas Bugnyar, W Tecumseh Fitch

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Article in Animal behaviour, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Chestnut-crowned babbler calls are composed of meaningless shared building blocks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  4. Common marmosets are sensitive to simple dependencies at variable distances in an artificial grammar.Evolution and human behavior : official journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society · 2019
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6 authors.

Stephan A ReberDepartment of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Markus BoeckleDepartment of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Konrad Lorenz Research Station for Behaviour and Cognition, University of Vienna, Grünau, Austria; Department for Psychotherapy and Biopsychosocial Health, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria.
Georgine SziplDepartment of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Konrad Lorenz Research Station for Behaviour and Cognition, University of Vienna, Grünau, Austria.
Judith JanischDepartment of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Thomas BugnyarDepartment of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Konrad Lorenz Research Station for Behaviour and Cognition, University of Vienna, Grünau, Austria.
W Tecumseh FitchDepartment of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF Y 366
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human language involves combining items into meaningful, syntactically structured wholes. The evolutionary origin of syntactic abilities has been investigated by testing pattern perception capacities in nonhuman animals. New World primates can respond spontaneously to structural changes in acoustic sequences and songbirds can learn to discriminate between various patterns in operant tasks. However, there is no conclusive evidence that songbirds respond spontaneously to structural changes in patterns without reinforcement or training. In this study, we tested pattern perception capacities of common ravens,

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call combinationcommon ravenpattern perceptionsongbirdspontaneous responseterritoriality

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