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Refereed Publications
Please
e-mail me if you would like a
reprint.
In Press
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Hahn,
A.H., Krysler, A., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 11 May 2013). Female song
in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus): Acoustic song
features that contain individual identity information and sex differences.
To appear in
Behavioural Processes.
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Hahn,
A.H., Guillette,
L.M.,
Hoeschele, M., Cook, R.G.,
& Sturdy, C.B. Categories, concepts, and
calls: Auditory perceptual mechanisms and cognitive abilities across
different types of birds. To appear in Proceedings of Meetings on
Acoustics.
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Mercado, E., III, Wisniewski, M.G., McIntosh, B.,
Guillette,
L.M., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press). Reverberlocation in chickadees? To
appear in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics.
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Hoeschele, M.,
Weisman, R.G., Guillette,
L.M.,
Hahn,
A.H., & Sturdy, C.B.
(In press 7 January 2013). Chickadees fail standardized operant tests for
octave equivalence. To appear in
Animal
Cognition.
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Proppe, D.S., Sturdy, C.B., &
St. Clair, C.C. (In press 7 November 2012). Anthropogenic noise
contributes to urban homogenization. To appear in
Global Change Biology.
2012
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Guillette,
L.M.,
Hoeschele, M.,
Hahn,
A.H., & Sturdy, C.B. (2012). Heterospecific
discrimination of Poecile vocalizations by zebra finches (Taeniopygia
guttata).
Journal of
Comparative Psychology.
DOI:
10.1037/a0029992
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Hoeschele, M., Cook, R.G.,
Guillette,
L.M., Hahn, A.H., & Sturdy, C.B.
(2012). Auditory same/different concept learning and generalization in
black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). PLoS ONE. DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0047691
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Hoeschele,
M., Guillette,
L.M., Sturdy, C.B. (2012). Biological relevance of acoustic
signal affects discrimination performance in a songbird.
Animal
Cognition.
DOI:
10.1007/s10071-012-0496-8
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Hoeschele, M., Weisman, R.G., &
Sturdy, C.B. (2012). Pitch chroma discrimination, generalization, and
transfer tests of octave equivalence in humans.
Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.
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Proppe, D.S.,
Avey, M.T.,
Hoeschele,
M.,
Moscicki, M.K., Farrell, T.,
St. Clair, C.C., & Sturdy, C.B. (2012). Black-capped chickadees
sing at higher pitches with elevated anthropogenic noise, but not with
decreasing canopy cover. Journal of Avian Biology. doi
10.1111/j.1600-048X.2012.05640.x
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Weisman, R.G., Balkwill, L.-L.,
Hoeschele, M.,
Moscicki, M.K., & Sturdy, C.B. (2012). Identifying absolute pitch
possessors without using a note naming task.
Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain.
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Weisman, R.G.,
Mewhort, D.J.K.,
Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2012). New perspectives
on absolute pitch in birds and mammals. In E.A. Wasserman & T.R. Zentall (Eds),
Handbook of Comparative Cognition. Oxford University Press,
67-79.
2011
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Avey
M.T.,
Hoeschele, M.,
Moscicki, M.K.,
Bloomfield, L.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2011). Neural
correlates of threat perception: Neural equivalence of conspecific and
heterospecific mobbing calls is learned.
PLoS ONE 6(8): e23844.
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0023844
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Avey,
M.T., Rodriguez, A., & Sturdy C.B. (2011).
Seasonal variation of vocal behaviour in a temperate songbird: Assessing
the effects of laboratory housing on wild-caught, seasonally-breeding
birds.
Behavioural Processes, 88, 177-183.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2011.09.005
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Guillette,
L.M.,
Bloomfield, L.L., Batty, E.R.,
Dawson, M.R.W., &
Sturdy, C.B. (2011). Development of a contact call in
black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) hand-reared in different acoustic
environments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
130 (4), 2249-2256.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3628343
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Guillette,
L.M.,
Reddon, A.R., Hoeschele,
M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2011). Sometimes slower is
better: Slow-exploring birds are more sensitive to changes in a vocal
discrimination task.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278,
767-773.
DOI:
10.1098/rspb.2010.1669
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Guillette,
L.M.
& Sturdy, C.B. (2011). Individual differences and
repeatability in vocal production: Stress-induced calling exposes a
songbird’s personality.
Naturwissenschaften,
98,977–981.
DOI:
10.1007/s00114-011-0842-8
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Hoeschele, M., Cook, R.G.,
Guillette,
L.M.,
Brooks, D.I., & Sturdy, C.B. (2011). Black-capped
chickadee and human chord discrimination. To appear in
Journal of
Comparative Psychology. Advance online publication.
DOI: 10.1037/a0024627
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Moscicki, M.K.,
Hoeschele, M.,
Bloomfield, L.L.,
Modanu, M., Charrier, I.,
& Sturdy, C.B. (2011). Note types and coding in Parid
vocalizations: the chick-a-dee call of the boreal chickadee (Poecile
hudsonicus). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
129(5),
3327-3340.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3560925
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Proppe, D.S.,
Sturdy, C.B., &
St. Clair, C.C. (2011). Flexibility in animal
signals facilitates adaptation to rapidly changing environments. To appear
in PLoS ONE, 6(9):
e25413.
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0025413
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Wisniewski, M.G., Guillette,
L.M., Radell, M., Sturdy, C.B. &
Mercado, E. (2011). Predicting shifts in
generalization gradients with perceptrons. To appear in
Learning &
Behavior.
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-011-0050-6
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Wisniewski, M.G.,
Guillette,
L.M., Radell, M.L., Sturdy, C.B., &
Mercado, E., III (2011). Simulating the temporal
dynamics of learning-related shifts in generalization gradients with
connectionist models. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
2010
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Guillette,
L.M., Bailey, A.A.,
Reddon, A.R., Hurd, P.L.,
& Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Capture order is repeatable in
chickadees.
International
Journal of Comparative Psychology, 23, 216-224.
Guillette,
L.M.,
Bloomfield, L.L., Batty, E.R.,
Dawson, M.R.W., & Sturdy, C.B. (2010).
Black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadee (Poecile
gambeli) contact call contains species, sex, and individual identity
features. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,127(2),
1116-1123.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3277247
Guillette,
L.M., Farrell, T.M.,
Hoeschele, M., Nickerson, C.M.,
Dawson, M.R.W., &
Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Mechanisms of call note type
perception: Peak Shift in a note type continuum.
Journal of
Comparative Psychology,124(1), 109-115.
DOI: 10.1037/a0017741
Guillette,
L.M., Farrell, T.M.,
Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Acoustic mechanisms of a
species-based discrimination of the chick-a-dee call in sympatric
black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadees (P.
gambeli).
Frontiers in Comparative Psychology,1:229.
DOI:
10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00229
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Hoeschele, M.,
Moscicki,
M.K., Otter, K.A., van Oort, H., Fort, K., Farrell, T.M., Lee, H., Robson,
S.W.J., & Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Dominance Signaled in
an Acoustic Ornament.
Animal Behaviour,
79, 657–664.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.12.015
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Moscicki, M.K.,
Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (in press). Note types and coding in
Parid vocalizations: the chick-a-dee call of the Mexican chickadee (Poecile
sclateri). Acta Ornithologica.
DOI:
10.3161/000164510X551282
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Proppe, D.S.,
Bloomfield, L.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Acoustic transmission of the chick-a-dee call of the black capped
chickadee (Poecile atricapillus): forest structure and note
function.
Canadian Journal of Zoology,
88, 788-794.
DOI:
10.1139/Z10-047
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Weisman, R.G., Balkwill, L.-L.,
Hoeschele,
M.,
Moscicki,
M.K.,
Bloomfield, L.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Frequency-range
discriminations in boreal chickadees and humans: Exceptions that test a phylogenetic rule.
Learning & Motivation,
41, 156-173
(Special issue to honor Stewart H. Hulse).
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2010.04.002
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Weisman, R.G.,
Hoeschele,
M.,
Bloomfield, L.L.,
Mewhort, D.J.K., Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Using network
models of absolute pitch to compare frequency-range discriminations across
avian species.
Behavioural Processes,
84(1), 421-427.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2010.01.010
2009
Batty, E.R.,
Bloomfield, L.L.,
Spetch, M.L.,
& Sturdy, C.B. (2009). Black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain
chickadees' (Poecile gambeli) use of geometric and featural
information in a spatial orientation task.
Animal Cognition, 12, 633-641.
Guillette,
L.M.,
Reddon, A.R.,
Hurd, P.L., & Sturdy,
C.B. (2009). Exploration of a novel space is associated
with individual differences in learning speed in black-capped chickadees,
Poecile atricapillus.
Behavioural Processes,
82, 265–270.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2009.07.005
Hoeschele, M.,
Gammon, D.E.,
Moscicki,
M.K., & Sturdy, C.B. (2009). Note types and
coding in Parid vocalizations: the chick-a-dee call of the chestnut-backed
chickadee (Poecile rufuscens).
Journal of the Acoustical Society
of America, 126(4), 2088–2099.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3203736
Proppe, D.S., &
Sturdy, C.B. (2009). The effect of schedules of reinforcement on the
composition of spontaneous and evoked black-capped chickadee calls. Journal
of Experimental Biology, 212, 3016-3025.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.031724
2008
Avey, M.T.,
Quince, A.F., & Sturdy, C.B. (2008). Seasonal and diurnal patterns of
black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) vocal production.
Behavioural Processes , 77(2), 149-155. (doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.12.004) Included in Special Issue
in honour of the contributions of Ronald G. Weisman, Edited by C.B. Sturdy -
this paper edited by Dr. J. Crystal.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.12.004
Avey, M.T., Kanyo, R.A., Irwin, E.R., & Sturdy, C.B.
(2008). Differential effects of vocalization type, singer and listener on Zenk
immediate early gene response in black-capped chickadees (Poecile
atricapillus).
Behavioural Brain Research, 188(1), 201-208.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2007.10.034
Bloomfield, L.L., Farrell, T.M. & Sturdy, C.B.
(2008). Categorization and discrimination of
“chick-a-dee” calls by wild-caught and hand-reared chickadees.
Behavioural Processes, 77(2), 166-176. (doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.08.003) Included in Special Issue
in honour of the contributions of Ronald G. Weisman, Edited by C.B. Sturdy -
this paper edited by Dr. J. Crystal.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.08.003
Bloomfield, L.L., & Sturdy, C.B.
(2008). All
"chick-a-dee" calls are not created equally. Part I: Open-ended
categorization of chick-a-dee calls by sympatric and allopatric chickadees.
Behavioural Processes, 77(1), 73-86.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.06.011
Bloomfield, L.L., Farrell, T.M., & Sturdy, C.B.
(2008). All "chick-a-dee" calls are not created equally. Part II: Mechanisms for
discriminations by sympatric and allopatric chickadees.
Behavioural Processes, 77(1), 87-99.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.06.008
2007
Freeberg, T.M., Baker, M.C.,
Bloomfield, L.L., Charrier, I.,
Gammon, D.E.,
Hailman, J.P., Lee, T.T-Y,
Lucas, J.R.,
Mennill, D.J. & Sturdy, C.B. (2007). Synopsis: Complexities in Vocal
Communication. Ecology and Behaviour of Chickadees and
Titmice: An integrated approach, Otter, K.A. (ed).
Oxford
University Press.
Nickerson,
C.M.,
Bloomfield, L.L.,
Dawson, M.R.W.,
Charrier, I., & Sturdy, C.B.
(2007). Feature weighting in chick-a-dee call notes of Poecile
atricapillus.
Journal of the Acoustical Society
of America, 122(4), 2451-2458. DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2770540
Reprinted in the
Virtual Journal of Biological Physics
Research under
"Information
transfer in biological systems"
Sturdy, C.B.,
Bloomfield, L.L., Farrell, T.M.,
Avey, M.T., &
Weisman, R.G.
(2007).
Category perception as a natural cognitive activity in songbirds.
Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews,
2, 93-110. Retrieved from
http://psyc.queensu.ca/ccbr/index.html
DOI:10.3819/ccbr.2008.20006
Sturdy, C.B.,
Bloomfield, L.L.,
Charrier, I.,
& Lee, T.T.-Y.
(2007). Chickadee vocal production and perception: An integrative
approach to understanding acoustic communication.
Ecology and Behaviour of Chickadees and Titmice: An integrated approach, Otter, K.A. (ed).
Oxford University Press.
2006
Dawson, M.R.W.,
Bloomfield, L.L.,
Charrier,
I., & Sturdy, C.B. (2006). Statistical classification of black-capped (Poecile atricapillus)
and mountain chickadee (P. gambeli) call notes.
Journal of Comparative Psychology,
120(2), 147-153.
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.120.2.147
Dawson, M.R.W.,
Charrier, I., & Sturdy, C.B.
(2006). Using an artificial neural network to classify the call notes of the
black-capped chickadee call (Poecile atricapillus).
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119(5), 3161-3172.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2189028
Reprinted in the
Virtual Journal of Biological Physics
Research under
"Biological Networks"
Lee, T.T.-Y.,
Charrier, I.,
Bloomfield, L.L.,
Weisman, R.G., & Sturdy, C.B. (2006). Frequency-range discriminations and
absolute pitch in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus),
mountain
chickadees (P. gambeli) and zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).
Journal of
Comparative Psychology, 120, 217-228.
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.120.3.217
Nickerson, C.M.,
Bloomfield, L.L.,
Dawson, M.R.W., & Sturdy, C.B. (2006). Artificial
neural network discrimination of black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
call notes .
Journal of the Acoustical Society
of America, 120(2), 1111-1117.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2211509
Reprinted in the
Virtual Journal of Biological Physics
Research under
"Biological Networks"
Sturdy, C.B. &
Weisman, R.G. (2006). Rationale and methodology for testing auditory cognition in
songbirds.
Behavioural Processes.
72, 265-272.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2006.03.007
Weisman, R.G.,
Njegovan, M.G., Williams, M.,
Cohen, J., & Sturdy, C.B.
(2006). The comparative psychology of absolute pitch. Comparative Cognition: Experimental
Explorations of Animal Intelligence, Wasserman, E.A, and Zentall, T., Eds.
Oxford
University Press.
2005
Bloomfield, L.L.,
Phillmore, L.S.,
Weisman, R.G., & Sturdy, C.B. (2005). Note
types and coding in Parid vocalizations III: The chick-a-dee call of the
Carolina chickadee (Poecile carolinensis).
Canadian Journal of Zoology,
83, 820-833.
DOI:
10.1139/z05-067
Charrier, I., Lee, T.T.-Y.,
Bloomfield, L.L.,
& Sturdy, C.B. (2005). Acoustic mechanisms of note-type perception in
black-capped chickadee calls.
Journal of Comparative Psychology, 119 (4),
371-380. DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.119.4.371
Charrier, I. & Sturdy, C.B. (2005).
Call-based species recognition in black-capped chickadees.
Behavioural
Processes, 70, 271-281.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2005.07.007
Gray, E.R.,
Bloomfield, L.L., Ferrey, A.,
Spetch, M.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2005).
Spatial encoding in mountain chickadees: Features overshadow geometry.
Biology
Letters, 1, 314-317.
DOI:
10.1098/rsbl.2005.0347
2004
Bloomfield, L.L.,
Charrier,
I., & Sturdy, C.B. (2004). Note types and coding in Parid vocalizations
II: The chick-a-dee call of the mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli).
Canadian Journal of Zoology, 82, 780-793.
DOI:
10.1139/z04-046
Charrier, I.,
Bloomfield, L.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2004). Note types and coding in Parid vocalizations I: The
chick-a-dee call of the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus).
Canadian Journal of Zoology, 82,
769-779. DOI:
10.1139/z04-045
Weisman, R.G.,
Njegovan, M.G., Williams, M.T.,
Cohen, J.S., & Sturdy, C.B. (2004) A behavior analysis of absolute
pitch: Sex, experience, and species.
Behavioral Processes, 66, 289-307.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2004.03.010
2003
Bloomfield, L.L.,
Sturdy, C.B.,
Phillmore, L.S.,
&
Weisman, R.G.
(2003). Open-ended categorization of chick-a-dee calls by black-capped
chickadees (Poecile atricapilla).
Journal of Comparative Psychology,
117 (3), 290-301.
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.117.3.290
Phillmore, L.S.,
Sturdy, C.B., &
Weisman, R.G. (2003). Does reduced social contact affect discrimination
of distance cues and individual vocalizations?
Animal Behaviour, 65,
911-922. DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2003.2153
Sturdy, C.B.,
Wild, J.M., &
Mooney, R.
(2003)
Respiratory and telencephalic modulation of vocal motor neurons in the zebra
finch.
Journal of Neuroscience, 23 (3), 1072-1086.
2002
Mooney, R., Rosen, M.J., & Sturdy, C.B. (2002). A bird’s eye view: top down intracellular
analyses of auditory selectivity for learned vocalizations.
Journal of
Comparative Physiology A, 188, 879-895.
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-002-0353-3
Phillmore, L.S., Sturdy, C.B., Turyk, M. &
Weisman, R.G.
(2002). Discrimination of Individual Vocalizations by
Black-Capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapilla).
Animal Learning &
Behavior, 30 (1), 43-52.
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192908
2001
Sturdy, C.B.,
Phillmore, L.S.,
Sartor, J.J., &
Weisman, R.G.
(2001).
Reduced Social Contact Causes Auditory Perceptual Deficits in Zebra Finches, Taeniopygia
guttata.
Animal Behaviour, 62, 1207-1218.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2001.1864
2000
1999
Sturdy, C.B.,
Phillmore, L.S.,
&
Weisman, R.G. (1999). Note types, harmonic suppression, and note order in the songs of zebra
finches (Taeniopygia guttata).
Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113
(2), 194-203.
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.113.2.194
Sturdy, C.B,
Phillmore, L.S.,
Price, J.L., &
Weisman, R.G.
(1999). Song-note discriminations in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata):
Categories and pseudocategories.
Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113 (2),
204-212.
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.113.2.204
Weisman, R., Brownlie, L.,
Olthof, A., Sturdy, C.,
Njegovan, M., &
Mewhort, D.
(1999). Timing and classifying brief acoustic stimuli by songbirds and humans.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 25 (2),
139-152.
DOI:
10.1037/0097-7403.25.2.139
1998
Phillmore, L.S.,
Sturdy, C.B.,
Ramsay, S.M., &
Weisman, R.G.
(1998). Discrimination of auditory distance cues in black-capped chickadees (Poecile
atricapillus) and zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).
Journal of Comparative
Psychology, 112 (3), 282-291.
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.112.3.282
Weisman, R.,
Njegovan, M., Sturdy, C.,
Phillmore, L.,
Coyle, J., &
Mewhort, D.
(1998). Frequency range discriminations: special and general abilities in zebra
finches (Taeniopygia guttata) and humans (Homo sapiens).
Journal of Comparative
Psychology, 112 (3), 244 - 258.
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.112.3.244
1996
Non-refereed Publications
Sturdy, C.B., & Zentall, T.R. (2011).
Welcome Editorial. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 6, 4.
Retrieved from
http://psyc.queensu.ca/ccbr/index.html
Sturdy, C.B. (2008). Thinking outside
the box: A tribute to the contributions of Ronald G. Weisman. Behavioural
Processes, 77(2), 139-141.Editorial for Special Issue in honour of
the contributions of Ronald G. Weisman.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.11.010
Sturdy, C.B.
(2004). A social call. Nature, 430, 414.
DOI:
10.1038/430414a
Sturdy, C.B. &
Mooney, R.
(2000). Bird Communication: Two voices are better than one.
Current Biology,
10 (17), R634-R636.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00661-8
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