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

Evidence suggests vocal production learning in a cross-fostered Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus)

(2016) Livio Favaro et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Phonological perception by birds: budgerigars can perceive lexical stress

(2016) Marisa Hoeschele et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Look at the Beat, Feel the Meter: Top–Down Effects of Meter Induction on Auditory and Visual Modalities

(2016) Alexandre Celma-Miralles et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Finding the Beat: From Socially Coordinated Vocalizations in Songbirds to Rhythmic Entrainment in Humans

(2016) Jonathan I. Benichov et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Preliminary Experiments on Human Sensitivity to Rhythmic Structure in a Grammar with Recursive Self-Similarity

(2016) Andreea Geambaşu et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

The Indris Have Got Rhythm! Timing and Pitch Variation of a Primate Song Examined between Sexes and Age Classes

(2016) Marco Gamba et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Measuring Neural Entrainment to Beat and Meter in Infants: Effects of Music Background

(2016) Laura K. Cirelli et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Beat Keeping in a Sea Lion As Coupled Oscillation: Implications for Comparative Understanding of Human Rhythm

(2016) Andrew A. Rouse et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Mother–pup vocal recognition in harbour seals: influence of maternal behaviour, pup voice and habitat sound properties

(2015) Caroline C. Sauvé et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The perception of regularity in an isochronous stimulus in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) and humans

(2015) Jeroen van der Aa et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Experience-dependent emergence of a grouping bias

(2015) Juan M. Toro et al.   Biology Letters

Can a gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) generalize call classes?

(2015) Amanda L. Stansbury et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Acoustic analysis of airborne, underwater, and amphibious mother attraction calls by wild harbor seal pups (Phoca vitulina)

(2015) Caroline C. Sauvé et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Experimental studies illuminate the cultural transmission of percussive technologies inHomoandPan

(2015) Andrew Whiten   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Four principles of bio-musicology

(2015) W. T. Fitch   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Searching for the origins of musicality across species

(2015) M. Hoeschele et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Universal mechanisms of sound production and control in birds and mammals

(2015) C.P.H Elemans et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2015) Andrea Ravignani et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Social, contextual, and individual factors affecting the occurrence and acoustic structure of drumming bouts in wild chimpanzees(Pan troglodytes)

(2014) Magdalena Babiszewska et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Chronometry for the chorusing herd: Hamilton's legacy on context-dependent acoustic signalling--a comment on Herbers (2013)

(2014) A. Ravignani   Biology Letters

The evolution of vocal learning

(2014) Stephen Nowicki et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Vocal learning in seals, sea lions, and walruses

(2014) Colleen Reichmuth et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

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

(2014) W. Tecumseh Fitch   Physics of Life Reviews

Synchrony and motor mimicking in chimpanzee observational learning

(2014) Delia Fuhrmann et al.   Scientific Reports

The Evolutionary Biology of Musical Rhythm: Was Darwin Wrong?

(2014) Aniruddh D. Patel   PLOS BIOLOGY

Convergence of speech rate in conversation predicts cooperation

(2013) Joseph H. Manson et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Comparative assessment of amphibious hearing in pinnipeds

(2013) Colleen Reichmuth et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) can keep the beat: Motor entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli in a non vocal mimic.

(2013) Peter Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Complex vibratory patterns in an elephant larynx

(2013) C. T. Herbst et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post-K-Pg Radiation of Placentals

(2013) M. A. O'Leary et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2013) Andrea Ravignani et al.   SENSORS

Spontaneous synchronization of arm motion between Japanese macaques

(2013) Yasuo Nagasaka et al.   Scientific Reports

Do humans and nonhuman animals share the grouping principles of the iambic–trochaic law?

(2012) Daniela M. de la Mora et al.   Attention Perception & Psychophysics

An Asian Elephant Imitates Human Speech

(2012) Angela S. Stoeger et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Interacting Cortical and Basal Ganglia Networks Underlying Finding and Tapping to the Musical Beat

(2012) Shu-Jen Kung et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) Detect Rhythmic Groups in Music, but Not the Beat

(2012) Henkjan Honing et al.   PLoS One

Monkeys have a limited form of short-term memory in audition

(2012) Brian H. Scott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temporal regularity effects on pre-attentive and attentive processing of deviance

(2011) Michael Schwartze et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

The Cerebellum Generates Motor-to-Auditory Predictions: ERP Lesion Evidence

(2011) Franziska Knolle et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

What makes an Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) male's bark threatening?

(2011) Isabelle Charrier et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Timing and time perception: A review of recent behavioral and neuroscience findings and theoretical directions

(2010) Simon Grondin   Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Testing meter, rhythm, and tempo discriminations in pigeons

(2010) Carl Erick Hagmann et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Did you get the beat? Late proficient French-German learners extract strong–weak patterns in tonal but not in linguistic sequences

(2010) Maren Schmidt-Kassow et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Event-related potential responses to metric violations: rules versus meaning

(2010) Kathrin Rothermich et al.   NEUROREPORT

Cortical speech processing unplugged: a timely subcortico-cortical framework

(2010) Sonja A. Kotz et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Neuroanatomy and Volumes of Brain Structures of a Live California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) From Magnetic Resonance Images

(2009) Eric W. Montie et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Studying Synchronization to a Musical Beat in Nonhuman Animals

(2009) Aniruddh D. Patel et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Complex vocal imitation during ontogeny in a bat

(2009) M. Knornschild et al.   Biology Letters

Experimental Evidence for Synchronization to a Musical Beat in a Nonhuman Animal

(2009) Aniruddh D. Patel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Context-Related Variation in the Vocal Growling Behaviour of the Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris)

(2009) Anna M. Taylor et al.   ETHOLOGY

Subsecond Timing in Primates: Comparison of Interval Production Between Human Subjects and Rhesus Monkeys

(2009) Wilbert Zarco et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

On the role and origin of isochrony in human rhythmic entrainment

(2008) Bjorn H. Merker et al.   CORTEX

Convergence of calls as animals form social bonds, active compensation for noisy communication channels, and the evolution of vocal learning in mammals.

(2008) Peter L. Tyack   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Acoustic production mechanisms in pinnipeds

(2008) Marija Spasikova et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Perception of rhythmic grouping depends on auditory experience

(2008) John R. Iversen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA