Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution: Recent submissions
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Reverberlocation in chickadees?
(Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2013-06) - Conference itemChickadee songs provide conspecifics with information about the locations of singers. Song amplitude, frequency, and reverberation all vary with distance, and it is thought that chickadees use such cues to estimate distance. ... -
Female putty-nosed monkeys use experimentally altered contextual information to disambiguate the cause of male alarm calls
(2013-06-05) - Journal articleMany animal vocal signals are given in a wide range of contexts which can sometimes have little in common. Yet, to respond adaptively, listeners must find ways to identify the cause of a signal, or at least rule out ... -
Acoustic mechanisms of a species-based discrimination of the chick-a-dee call in sympatric black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadees (P. gambeli)
(2010) - Journal articlePrevious perceptual research with black-capped and mountain chickadees has demonstrated that these species treat each other’s namesake chick-a-dee calls as belonging to separate, open-ended categories. Further, the terminal ... -
Development of a contact call in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) hand-reared in different acoustic environments
(2011) - Journal articleThe tseet contact call, common to black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadees (P. gambeli), is the most frequently produced vocalization of each species. Previous work has characterized the tseet call of ... -
Evidence for weak or linear conformity but not for hyper-conformity in an everyday social learning context
(2012-02-20) - Journal articleConformity is thought to be an important force in cultural evolution because it has the potential to stabilize cooperation in large groups, potentiate group selection and thus explain uniquely human behaviors. However, the ...