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A Chinese alligator in heliox: formant frequencies in a crocodilian

scientific article published in August 2015

A laboratory evaluation of an auditory display designed to enhance intraoperative monitoring

scientific article published in February 2002

A major blow to primate neonatal imitation and mirror neuron theory

scientific article published in January 2017

A novel approach to investigate recursion and iteration in visual hierarchical processing

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

A technological framework for running and analyzing animal head turning experiments.

scientific article published on 14 July 2017

A three-parameter model for classifying anurans into four genera based on advertisement calls

scientific article published in January 2013

Acoustic allometry revisited: morphological determinants of fundamental frequency in primate vocal production.

scientific article

Acoustic exaggeration of size in birds via tracheal elongation: comparative and theoretical analyses

Acoustic exaggeration of size in birds via tracheal elongation: comparative and theoretical analyses

article published in 1999

Action at a distance: dependency sensitivity in a New World primate

scientific article published on 13 November 2013

An Asian elephant imitates human speech

scientific article

Animal behaviour: Birdsong normalized by culture

scientific article published in May 2009

Animal cognition and the evolution of human language: why we cannot focus solely on communication

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Artificial Grammar Learning Capabilities in an Abstract Visual Task Match Requirements for Linguistic Syntax

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Artificial grammar learning meets formal language theory: an overview ⬇️

scientific article published on July 19, 2012

Artificial visual stimuli for animal experiments: An experimental evaluation in a prey capture context with common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

scientific article published on 10 September 2018

Attending to the forest and the trees. Reply to comments on "Toward a computational framework for cognitive biology: unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative cognition".

scientific article published on 30 July 2014

Behavioural Type Affects Space Use in a Wild Population of Crows (Corvus corone).

scientific article published on 6 October 2016

Beyond intensity: Spectral features effectively predict music-induced subjective arousal

scientific article published on 16 December 2013

Bio-Linguistics: Monkeys Break Through the Syntax Barrier

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Bioaesthetics: The evolution of aesthetic cognition in humans and other animals

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Biological versus cultural evolution: beyond a false dichotomy. Comment on "Modeling the cultural evolution of language" by Luc Steels

scientific article published on 25 October 2011

Biology of music: another one bites the dust

scientific article published in May 2009

Bipedal tool use strengthens chimpanzee hand preferences

scientific article

Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain

scientific article

Black and White Colobus Monkey (Colobus guereza) Roars as a Source of Both Honest and Exaggerated Information About Body Mass

scientific article (publication date: September 2006)

Body size and vocalization in primates and carnivores

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

CATOS (Computer Aided Training/Observing System): Automating animal observation and training

scientific article published on 7 January 2016

Chorusing, synchrony, and the evolutionary functions of rhythm

scientific article

Cineradiography of Monkey Lip-Smacking Reveals Putative Precursors of Speech Dynamics ⬇️

scientific article published on May 31, 2012

Cognitive representation of "musical fractals": Processing hierarchy and recursion in the auditory domain

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

Common marmosets are sensitive to simple dependencies at variable distances in an artificial grammar

article by Stephan A Reber et al published March 2019 in Evolution and Human Behavior

Complex vibratory patterns in an elephant larynx

scientific article published in November 2013

Computational constraints on syntactic processing in a nonhuman primate

scientific article published in January 2004

Convergence and deep homology in the evolution of spoken language

scholarly article

Cues to body size in the formant spacing of male koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) bellows: honesty in an exaggerated trait

scientific article published in October 2011

Cues to individuality in Greylag Goose faces: algorithmic discrimination and behavioral field tests

scientific article published in 2023

Cultural evolution: Lab-cultured musical universals

scientific article (publication date: 10 January 2017)

Dance, Music, Meter and Groove: A Forgotten Partnership

scientific article published in March 2016

Dancing to Darwin's tune

journal article; published in Nature on 2005-11-16

Differential functional benefits of ultra highfield MR systems within the language network

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

Direct electrical stimulation evidence for a dorsal motor area with control of the larynx

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Do Animal Communication Systems Have Phonemes?

scientific article published on 4 September 2015

Do red deer hinds prefer stags that produce harsh roars in mate choice contexts?

Do red deer stags (Cervus elaphus) use roar fundamental frequency (F0) to assess rivals?

scientific article

Do we represent intentional action as recursively embedded? The answer must be empirical. A comment on Vicari and Adenzato (2014).

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Do women prefer more complex music around ovulation? ⬇️

scientific article published on April 25, 2012

Dynamic hierarchical cognition: Music and language demand further types of abstracta

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Editorial overview: communication and language: animal communication and human language

scientific article published on 02 September 2014

Electroglottographic wavegrams: a technique for visualizing vocal fold dynamics noninvasively

scientific article published in November 2010

Empirical approaches to the study of language evolution

scientific article published in February 2017

Estimating the active space of male koala bellows: propagation of cues to size and identity in a Eucalyptus forest

scientific article

Evolutionary Developmental Biology and Human Language Evolution: Constraints on Adaptation ⬇️

scientific article published on March 7, 2012

Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech

scientific article published in 2022

Evolutionary novelties underlie sound production in baleen whales

Evolutionary trade-off between vocal tract and testes dimensions in howler monkeys

scientific article

Exploring shamanic journeying: repetitive drumming with shamanic instructions induces specific subjective experiences but no larger cortisol decrease than instrumental meditation music

scientific article published on 7 July 2014

Eye preferences in captive chimpanzees

scientific article published on 26 June 2012

Fechner revisited: Towards an inclusive approach to aesthetics ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2013

Female koalas prefer bellows in which lower formants indicate larger males

article

Finding the beat: a neural perspective across humans and non-human primates

scientific article

Flexible compensation of uniparental care: female poison frogs take over when males disappear

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Formants provide honest acoustic cues to body size in American alligators

scientific article published on 12 May 2017

Four principles of bio-musicology

scientific article

Fractal image perception provides novel insights into hierarchical cognition.

scientific article published on 31 March 2014

Genes, language, cognition, and culture: towards productive inquiry

scientific article published in April 2011

Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report

Glossogeny and phylogeny: cultural evolution meets genetic evolution

scientific article published on 26 June 2008

Glottal opening and closing events investigated by electroglottography and super-high-speed video recordings

scientific article published in March 2014

Harmonic context influences pitch class equivalence judgments through gestalt and congruency effects

scientific article published on 5 April 2016

Hierarchical Structure in Sequence Processing: How to Measure It and Determine Its Neural Implementation

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Hierarchical processing in music, language, and action: Lashley revisited

scientific article

Honest signaling in domestic piglets (Sus scrofa domesticus): vocal allometry and the information content of grunt calls

scientific article published on 8 April 2016

How children perceive fractals: hierarchical self-similarity and cognitive development

scientific article published on 20 June 2014

How low can you go? Physical production mechanism of elephant infrasonic vocalizations

scientific article published in August 2012

Hyoid apparatus and pharynx in the lion (Panthera leo), jaguar (Panthera onca), tiger (Panthera tigris), cheetah (Acinonyxjubatus) and domestic cat (Felis silvestris f. catus)

scientific article

Japanese macaque phonatory physiology.

scientific article published on 3 April 2018

Journal club. A cognitive biologist foresees breakthroughs in understanding vocal learning

scientific article published in July 2010

Koalas use a novel vocal organ to produce unusually low-pitched mating calls

scientific article

Linguistics: Sound and meaning in the world's languages

scientific article published on 26 October 2016

Linguistics: an invisible hand

scientific article

Modeling the role of nonhuman vocal membranes in phonation

scientific article published in March 1999

Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready

scientific article

More than one way to see it: Individual heuristics in avian visual computation

scientific article

Morphology and development of the human vocal tract: a study using magnetic resonance imaging

scientific article published in September 1999

Motion events in language and cognition

scientific article published in February 2002

Multiple varieties of musical meaning: Comment on "Towards a neural basis of processing musical semantics" by Stefan Koelsch

scientific article published on 12 May 2011

Music as a coevolved system for social bonding

scientific article published on 20 August 2020

Non-adjacent visual dependency learning in chimpanzees

scientific article published on 21 January 2015

Non-native speaker pause patterns closely correspond to those of native speakers at different speech rates

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Overtone-based pitch selection in hermit thrush song: unexpected convergence with scale construction in human music

scientific article published on 3 November 2014

Pattern perception and computational complexity: introduction to the special issue ⬇️

scientific article published on July 19, 2012

Perception of male caller identity in Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus): acoustic analysis and playback experiments

scientific article

Perception of size-related formant information in male koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus).

scientific article published on 28 June 2012

Perceptual Tuning Influences Rule Generalization: Testing Humans With Monkey-Tailored Stimuli

Phonological perception by birds: budgerigars can perceive lexical stress

scientific article

Phonovibrographic wavegrams: Visualizing vocal fold kinematics ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2013

Phylogenetic signal in the acoustic parameters of the advertisement calls of four clades of anurans

scientific article

Pitch enhancement facilitates word learning across visual contexts

scientific article published on 22 December 2014

Preface to the Special Issue on the Biology and Evolution of Language

scientific article published on 01 February 2017

Primate Drum Kit: A System for Studying Acoustic Pattern Production by Non-Human Primates Using Acceleration and Strain Sensors ⬇️

scientific article published on July 31, 2013

Primate laterality and the biology and evolution of human handedness: a review and synthesis ⬇️

scientific article published on April 30, 2013

Production and perception rules underlying visual patterns: effects of symmetry and hierarchy

scientific article published in July 2012

Publisher Correction: Acoustic allometry revisited: morphological determinants of fundamental frequency in primate vocal production

scientific article

Publisher Correction: Acoustic allometry revisited: morphological determinants of fundamental frequency in primate vocal production

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Pupillometry of Groove: Evidence for Noradrenergic Arousal in the Link Between Music and Movement

article

Rank-dependent grooming patterns and cortisol alleviation in Barbary macaques

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

Rapid Learning and Long-Term Memory for Dangerous Humans in Ravens (Corvus corax)

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Rapid evolution of the primate larynx?

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Recursive music elucidates neural mechanisms supporting the generation and detection of melodic hierarchies

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Red deer stags use formants as assessment cues during intrasexual agonistic interactions

article by David Reby et al published 7 May 2005 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Representing visual recursion does not require verbal or motor resources

scientific article published on 2 March 2015

Response of red deer stags (Cervus elaphus) to playback of harsh versus common roars

scientific article published on 14 August 2014

Response to Lieberman on "Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready".

scientific article published on 7 July 2017

Rhesus macaques spontaneously perceive formants in conspecific vocalizations

scientific article published in October 2006

Rhythmic cognition in humans and animals: distinguishing meter and pulse perception

scientific article

Segmental structure in banded mongoose calls

scientific article published on 3 December 2012

Self-similarity and recursion as default modes in human cognition

scientific article published on 23 September 2016

Sequence and hierarchy in vocal rhythms and phonology

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Social cognition and the evolution of language: constructing cognitive phylogenies

scientific article

Social origins of rhythm? Synchrony and temporal regularity in human vocalization

scientific article published on 29 November 2013

Song Is More Memorable Than Speech Prosody: Discrete Pitches Aid Auditory Working Memory

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Spatial analysis of "crazy quilts", a class of potentially random aesthetic artefacts

scientific article published on 16 September 2013

Speech perception: a language-trained chimpanzee weighs in.

scientific article published in July 2011

Structural Classification of Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Vocalizations

scientific article

Take the long way home: Behaviour of a neotropical frog, Allobates femoralis, in a detour task

scientific article published on 17 March 2016

Talking to Dogs: Companion Animal-Directed Speech in a Stress Test

scientific article published on 04 July 2019

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

scientific article

The "domestication syndrome" in mammals: a unified explanation based on neural crest cell behavior and genetics

scientific article

The Evolution of Language

article

The Evolution of Rhythm Processing

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

The Evolution of Syntax: An Exaptationist Perspective ⬇️

scientific article published on December 23, 2011

The Eye is Listening: Music-Induced Arousal and Individual Differences Predict Pupillary Responses

scientific article

The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve?

scientific article

The Phonetic Potential of Nonhuman Vocal Tracts: Comparative Cineradiographic Observations of Vocalizing Animals

scientific article

The biology and evolution of music: a comparative perspective

scientific article published on 17 January 2006

The descended larynx is not uniquely human

scientific article

The evolution of language comes of age.

scientific article published in July 2002

The evolution of music in comparative perspective

scientific article published in December 2005

The evolution of speech: a comparative review

scientific article (publication date: July 2000)

The evolution of the language faculty: clarifications and implications

scientific article published on 19 August 2005

The expensive-tissue hypothesis may help explain brain-size reduction during domestication

scientific article published in 2022

The physiology of oral whistling: a combined radiographic and MRI analysis.

scientific article

The world in a song

scientific article

Toward a computational framework for cognitive biology: unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative cognition

scientific article published on 13 May 2014

Tuned to the rhythm

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-02-27

Unity and diversity in human language ⬇️

scientific article published on February 12, 2011

Using mathematical models of language experimentally

scientific article published in June 2005

Utterance-final position and pitch marking aid word learning in school-age children

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

Visual artificial grammar learning: comparative research on humans, kea ( Nestor notabilis ) and pigeons ( Columba livia ) ⬇️

scientific article published on July 19, 2012

Visualization of system dynamics using phasegrams

scientific article published on 22 May 2013

Vocal Learning in Pinnipeds: A Model System for Human Speech Evolution

scientific article published in May 2008

Vocal cues indicate level of arousal in infant African elephant roars

scientific article published in September 2011

Vocal learning, prosody, and basal ganglia: don't underestimate their complexity

scientific article published in December 2014

Vocal power and pressure-flow relationships in excised tiger larynges

scientific article published in November 2010

Vocal production in nonhuman primates: Acoustics, physiology, and functional constraints on "honest" advertisement

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Vocal tract length and formant frequency dispersion correlate with body size in rhesus macaques ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 1997

W. Tecumseh Fitch ⬇️

scientific article published on January 21, 2013

What Pinnipeds Have to Say about Human Speech, Music, and the Evolution of Rhythm

scientific article

Why evolve consciousness? Neural credit and blame allocation as a core function of consciousness

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