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Publications


Fitch WT. Speech science: Tuned to the rhythm. Nature. 2013 Feb 28;494(7438):434–435. doi: 10.1038/494434a

Guibert F, Lumineau S, Kotrschal K, Möstl E, Richard-Yris MA, Houdelier C. Trans-generational effects of prenatal stress in quail. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 2013 Feb 22;280(1753):1471-2954. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2368

Wascher C, Bugnyar T. Behavioral Responses to Inequity in Reward Distribution and Working Effort in Crows and Ravens. PLoS ONE. 2013 Feb 20;8(2). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056885, 10.1371/journal.pone.0056885

Unger J, Meyer T, Herbst CT, Fitch WT, Döllinger M, Lohscheller J. Phonovibrographic wavegrams: Visualizing vocal fold kinematics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2013 Feb 1;133(2):1055-1064. doi: 10.1121/1.4774378

Teschke I, Wascher CAF, Scriba MF, von Bayern AMP, Huml V, Siemers B et al. Did tool-use evolve with enhanced physical cognitive abilities? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 2013 Jan 1;368:1630. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0418

Mikolasch S, Kotrschal K, Schlögl C. Transitive inference in jackdaws (Corvus monedula). Behavioural Processes. 2013 Jan 1;92:113-117. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.10.017

Zeppelzauer M, Stöger A, Breiteneder C. Acoustic Detection of Elephant Presence in Noisy Environments. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Multimedia analysis for ecological dat. 2013. p. 3-8 doi: 10.1145/2509896.2509900

Ravignani A, Sonnweber RS, Stobbe N, Fitch WT. Action at a distance: dependency sensitivity in a New World primate. Biology Letters. 2013;9:20130852. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0852

Stöger A, de Silva S. African and Asian Elephant Vocal Communication: A Cross-Species Comparison. In Witzany G, editor, Biocommunication in Animals. 1 ed. Springer-Verlag Dordrecht. 2013. p. 21-39

Julius H, Beetz A, Kotrschal K, Turner DC, Uvnäs-Moberg K. Attachment to Pets: An integrative view of human-animal relationships with implications for therapeutic practice. New York: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 2013.

Schöberl GI, Kotrschal K, Beetz A. Biopsychologische Grundlagen der Bindung. In Ganslosser U, editor, Bindung und Beziehung - Man liebt nur, was man kennt . Fürth: Filander Verlag. 2013. p. 5-52

Fitch WT, Jarvis ED. Birdsong and other animal models for human speech, song, and vocal learning. In Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship. MIT Press. 2013

Hahn A, Guillette L, Höschele M, Cook R, Sturdy C. Categories, concepts, and calls: Auditory perceptual mechanisms and cognitive abilities across different types of birds. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. Vol. 19. 2013. 010042 doi: 10.1121/1.4799329

Riemer S, Viranyi Z, Müller C, Huber L, Range F. Choice of conflict resolution strategy is linked to sociability in dog puppies. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 2013;149(1-4):36-44. doi: 10.1016/j.applanim.2013.09.006

Herbst C, Svec J, Frey R, Gumpenberger M, Stöger A, Fitch WT et al. Complex vibratory patterns in an elephant larynx. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2013;216(21):4054-4064. doi: 10.1242/jeb.091009

Fitch WT, Mietchen D. Convergence and Deep Homology in the evolution of spoken language. In Birdsong, Speech and Language: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain. MIT Press. 2013

Beetz A, Kotrschal K, Kölbl-Tschulik D. Der Einsatz von Hunden in der Schule. Erziehung und Unterricht. 2013;1/2:160-170.

Hahn A, Guillette L, Höschele M, Mennill D, Otter K, Grava T et al. Dominance and geographic information contained within black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) song. Behaviour: an international journal of behaviourial biology. 2013;150(13):1601 – 1622. doi: 10.1163/1568539X-00003111

Rabeder G, Kavcik N. "Drachenhöhle" Mixnitz.. 2013. Paper presented at 19th International Cave Bear Symposium Semriach (Styria, Austria), Semriach, Styria, Austria, Austria.