A compact statistical model of the song syntax in Bengalese finch.

Songs of many songbird species consist of variable sequences of a finite number of syllables. A common approach for characterizing the syntax of these complex syllable sequences is to use transition probabilities between the syllables. This is equivalent to the Markov model, in which each syllable i...

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Main Authors: Dezhe Z Jin, Alexay A Kozhevnikov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3060163?pdf=render