Failure of operant control of vocal learning in budgerigars

Budgerigars were trained by operant conditioning to produce contact calls immediately after hearing a stimulus contact call. In Experiments 1 and 2, playback stimuli were chosen from two different contact call classes from the bird’s repertoire. Once this task was learned, the birds were then tested...

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Main Authors: Yoshimasa Seki, Michael S. Osmanski, Robert J. Dooling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Animal Behavior and Cognition 2018-02-01
Series:Animal Behavior and Cognition
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Online Access:http://animalbehaviorandcognition.org/uploads/journals/18/AB_C_2018_Vol5(1)_Seki_et_al.pdf