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Problem-solving males become more attractive to female budgerigars by Chen, Jiani, Zou, Yuqi, Sun, Yue-Hua, Ten Cate, Carel

“…Darwin proposed that mate choice might contribute to the evolution of cognitive abilities. An open question is whether observing the cognitive skills of an…”
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The Progressive Loss of Syntactical Structure in Bird Song along an Island Colonization Chain by Lachlan, Robert F., Verzijden, Machteld N., Bernard, Caroline S., Jonker, Peter-Paul, Koese, Bram, Jaarsma, Shirley, Spoor, Willemijn, Slater, Peter J.B., ten Cate, Carel

“…Cultural transmission can increase the flexibility of behavior, such as bird song. Nevertheless, this flexibility often appears to be constrained, sometimes by…”
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Simple rules can explain discrimination of putative recursive syntactic structures by a songbird species by van Heijningen, Caroline A.A, de Visser, Jos, Zuidema, Willem, ten Cate, Carel

“…According to a controversial hypothesis, a characteristic unique to human language is recursion. Contradicting this hypothesis, it has been claimed that the…”
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A Comparative Perspective on the Role of Acoustic Cues in Detecting Language Structure by Mueller, Jutta L., Cate, Carel ten, Toro, Juan M.

“…Most human language learners acquire language primarily via the auditory modality. This is one reason why auditory artificial grammars play a prominent role in…”
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Zebra Finches As a Model Species to Understand the Roots of Rhythm by Spierings, Michelle J, Ten Cate, Carel

“…For each male they were able to derive an isochronous sequence of “time stamps” of which a subset aligned with all note onsets of a male's song. [...]these…”
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Rule learning by zebra finches in an artificial grammar learning task: which rule? by van Heijningen, Caroline A. A., Chen, Jiani, van Laatum, Irene, van der Hulst, Bonnie, ten Cate, Carel

“…A hallmark of the human language faculty is the use of syntactic rules. The natural vocalizations of animals are syntactically simple, but several studies…”
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Noise Impact on European Sea Bass Behavior: Temporal Structure Matters by Neo, Yik Yaw, Seitz, Johanna, Kastelein, Ronald A, Winter, Hendrik V, Cate, Carel Ten, Slabbekoorn, Hans

“…Anthropogenic sounds come in different forms, varying not only in amplitude and frequency spectrum but also in temporal structure. Although fish are sensitive…”
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Revisiting the syntactic abilities of non-human animals: natural vocalizations and artificial grammar learning by ten Cate, Carel, Okanoya, Kazuo

“…The domain of syntax is seen as the core of the language faculty and as the most critical difference between animal vocalizations and language. We review…”
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Zebra finches exhibit speaker-independent phonetic perception of human speech by Ohms, Verena R., Gill, Arike, Van Heijningen, Caroline A. A., Beckers, Gabriel J. L., ten Cate, Carel

“…Humans readily distinguish spoken words that closely resemble each other in acoustic structure, irrespective of audible differences between individual voices…”
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Females Learn from Mothers and Males Learn from Others. The Effect of Mother and Siblings on the Development of Female Mate Preferences and Male Aggression Biases in Lake Victoria Cichlids, Genus Mbipia by Verzijden, Machteld N., Korthof, R. E. Madeleine, Cate, Carel ten

“…While species-assortative behaviour is often observed in sympatrically occurring species, there are few examples where we understand the extent to which…”
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Reply to Gentner et al.: As simple as possible, but not simpler by ten Cate, Carel, van Heijningen, Caroline, Zuidema, Willem

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Budgerigars and zebra finches differ in how they generalize in an artificial grammar learning experiment by Spierings, Michelle J., Cate, Carel ten

“…The ability to abstract a regularity that underlies strings of sounds is a core mechanism of the language faculty but might not be specific to language…”
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Vocal imitations and production learning by Australian musk ducks ( Biziura lobata ) by ten Cate, Carel, Fullagar, Peter J.

“…Acquiring vocalizations by learning them from other individuals is only known from a limited number of animal groups. For birds, oscine and some suboscine…”
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Forelimb-hindlimb developmental timing changes across tetrapod phylogeny by Bininda-Emonds, Olaf R P, Jeffery, Jonathan E, Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R, Hanken, James, Colbert, Matthew, Pieau, Claude, Selwood, Lynne, Ten Cate, Carel, Raynaud, Albert, Osabutey, Casmile K, Richardson, Michael K

“…Tetrapods exhibit great diversity in limb structures among species and also between forelimbs and hindlimbs within species, diversity which frequently…”
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A noisy spring: the impact of globally rising underwater sound levels on fish by Slabbekoorn, Hans, Bouton, Niels, van Opzeeland, Ilse, Coers, Aukje, ten Cate, Carel, Popper, Arthur N.

“…The underwater environment is filled with biotic and abiotic sounds, many of which can be important for the survival and reproduction of fish. Over the last…”
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Rules, rhythm and grouping: auditory pattern perception by birds by ten Cate, Carel, Spierings, Michelle

“…Both language and music are universal and characteristic for humans. The evolution of the cognitive abilities underlying language and music are widely debated…”
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Low-frequency songs lose their potency in noisy urban conditions by Halfwerk, Wouter, Bot, Sander, Buikx, Jasper, van der Velde, Marco, Komdeur, Jan, ten Cate, Carel, Slabbekoorn, Hans

“…Many animal species communicate with their mates through acoustic signals, but this communication seems to become a struggle in urbanized areas because of…”
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Searching for the origins of musicality across species by Hoeschele, Marisa, Merchant, Hugo, Kikuchi, Yukiko, Hattori, Yuko, ten Cate, Carel

“…In the introduction to this theme issue, Honing et al. suggest that the origins of musicality—the capacity that makes it possible for us to perceive,…”
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LEARNING AND COLONIZATION OF NEW NICHES: A FIRST STEP TOWARD SPECIATION by Beltman, Joost B, Haccou, Patsy, ten Cate, Carel

“…Learning processes potentially play a role in speciation but are often ignored in speciation models. Learning may, for instance, play a role when a new niche…”
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The impact of learning on sexual selection and speciation by Verzijden, Machteld N., ten Cate, Carel, Servedio, Maria R., Kozak, Genevieve M., Boughman, Jenny W., Svensson, Erik I.

“…Learning is widespread in nature, occurring in most animal taxa and in several different ecological contexts and, thus, might play a key role in evolutionary…”
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