Acoustic analyses and field playback experiments were conducted to investigate interspecific song differences and discrimination in male gibbons. Songs were recorded and analyzed from males of three populations: agile gibbons (Hylobates agilis) in West Kalimantan and South Sumatra and Miiller’s gibbons (Hylobates muelleri) in East Kalimantan. Male songs from each of the three populations were p...

Spoken language is a result of the human capacity to assemble simple vocal units into more complex utterances, the basic carriers of semantic information. Not much is known about the evolutionary origins of this behaviour. The vocal abilities of non-human primates are relatively unimpressive in comparison, with gibbon songs being a rare exception. These apes assemble a repertoire of call notes ...

Mate choice is among the most consequential decisions a sexually reproducing organism can make. In many songbird species, females make mate-choice decisions based, in part, on variation between males in songs that reflect their quality. Importantly, females may adjust their choice relative to the prevalence of high quality songs. In European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), females prefer males th...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the content analysis of recent persian songs (2013-2014) according to emotions of anxiety, depression, anger, fear and happiness. the research method was content analysis type. the sample consisted of 50 persian songs from 2013 to 2014 which they were selected by simple sampling. to analysis of data, massages were categorized in emotions of anxiety, ...

Proper nouns are names for unique persons, places, and things. One of these “things” can be songs. Songs have specific names, such as “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” or “Jingle Bells.” When you hear a song, you often think of its name. We conducted a scientific study to find out which parts of the brain are important for naming a famous song. We already had some clues about which brain region mig...

Toplumda sosyal aktör olan bireyin süreç içerisinde sosyalleşmesi, geleneklerle bütünleşen kültürel özelliklerle oluşmuş toplumsal rol kalıplarının içselleştirilmesidir. Toplumsal hayatta cinsiyete dayalı roller ülkelerin kabulleri oranında paylaşılmıştır. Halkın sesi olarak toplumun yaşam biçimlerini, geleneklerini, örf ve adetlerini, tecrübe hikâyelerini, inançlarını, izlerini kapsayan türkül...

Brood-parasitic village indigobirds, Vidua chalybeata, were bred in captivity and foster-reared by their normal host, red-billed firefinch, Lagonosticta senegala, or by an experimental foster species, Bengalese finch, Lonchura striata. Male indigobirds reared by Bengalese finches developed the songs of Bengalese finches, and males reared by firefinches developed songs of firefinches. Males copi...

http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/ http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/ http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/ data/ http://code.google.com/p/linloglayout/ http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2007 Chen et al. (2009). It is a similarity graph of 3090 songs. The songs are evenly divided among 10 classes that roughly correspond to different music genres. The weighted edges are human judgment on how simi...