… Moreover, the fact that the birds in these experiments produced only species-typical calls—and
not calls of the other species—can be taken as evidence that each bird's auditory system …

… The light microscopic picture of the inner ear of birds has been described by a large number
of research workers. It will suffice here therefore to give a short summary of the structure of …

… similarities among auditory stimuli. After a brief introduction why we study birds to address
the … sound strings, (2) perceive rhythm and (3) spontaneously perceive grouping patterns in …

… Aaditory Perception 163 of birds is notably poor and, indeed, no bird is able to hear much
above 10 … In summary, the high-frequency sensitivity of birds is notable in that they do not hear …

The problem of the development ofspecies-specific behavior shares many of the conceptual
difficulties involved in neural specificity. This kind of adaptive behavior occurs with such …

… auditory periphery from a specific perspective. There are many aspects of hearн ing and
auditory perception in birds … contribution of the auditory periphery to the perception of sound in …

… must have auditory neurons that are not restricted in their responsiveness to bird’s own song,
neurons that could function in the many other auditory recognition tasks that birds perform. …

… Experiments and analysis of the auditory perception of birds’ vocalizations were supported
by a fellowship from the Fyssen Foundation to JEE, by NIH NIDCD R01 016783 to Frederic …

… with which auditory environment can be manipulated. The results suggest that bird song can
be … The main aim of this chapter is to discuss the ontogeny of bird voice as it relates to these …

… The phenomena of vocal learning and sexual dimorphism in vocal behavior add interesting
dimensions to the study of hearing and auditory perception in birds. That hearing is critically …