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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Animal sounds"”.
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Animal-Word and Sound Test: An Auditory Cognitive Interference Effect
… form. This auditory test used a series of animal words, animal sounds and word-sound combinations. This "Animal-Word-and-Sound test" contained three subtests. The test tasks were to repeat a list of words, identify a list of animal sounds, and to identify the sound in a combined animal …
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Keeping visual-auditory associations in mind: The impact of detail and meaningfulness on crossmodal working memory load
… Independent of test location, more-complex animal sounds provided better crossmodal change detection performance than abstract tones. An association measure showed consistently higher numbers of associations for representational images than abstract ones. Observers' response bias was lower …
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Development and functions of signature whistles of free-ranging bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus
This thesis presents data on the development and functions of individually distinctive signature whistles of free-ranging bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops tnmcatus. Research was conducted at a study site near Sarasota, Florida, where a resident community of bottlenose dolphins have been the focus of a …
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Maintaining contact : design and use of acoustic signals in killer whales, Orcinus orca
… on signal features that might be useful for animals to maintain contact and coordinate activities with preferred associates, including: distinctiveness by group or individual, call amplitude, and directionality cues that might cue the direction-of-movement of the signaler. Research was …
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Techniques for studying vocal learning in bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus
The objective of this thesis is to develop the methods necessary for evaluating the role of learning in the natural whistle development of bottlenose dolphins. Bottlenose dolphins provide a unique opportunity to study social influences on vocal learning in a highly social non-human mammal. Vocal …
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Song of the Morrígan for Chamber Orchestra, Cries of Revelation for Chorus, Soloists and Large Instrumental Ensemble, and Fragments of a Dream for 5.1 Surround Electronics
… synthesize hundreds of diverse found and sampled sounds through granular synthesis. Some of the samples used in this work include birdcalls, machinery, various animal sounds, water droplets, human vocalizations, singing bowls, and Tibetan singing bowls. Fragments of a Dream was assembled, mixed …