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Hemetsberger J, Weiß BM, Scheiber I. Greylag geese: from general principles to the Konrad Lorenz flock. In Scheiber I, Weiß B, Hemetsberger J, Kotrschal K, editors, The Social Life of Greylag Geese: Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. p. 3-25

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Slana A, Gingras B, Fitch WT, Repovs G. Interference effect and cognitive control: The case of pitch class change detection. In Proceedings of the 16th International Multiconference of the Information Society. Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2013. p. 354-357

Aust U, Steurer M. Learning of an oddity rule by pigeons in a four-choice touch-screen procedure. Animal Cognition. 2013;16(3):321-341. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0574-y

Weiß B, Scheiber IBR. Long-term memory of hierarchical relationships in free-living greylag geese. Animal Cognition. 2013;16(1):91-97. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0554-2, 10.1007/s10071-012-0554-2

Fitch WT. Musical protolanguage: Darwin's theory of language evolution revisited. In Birdsong, Speech and Language : Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain. MIT Press. 2013

Fitch WT. Noam Chomsky and the Biology of Language. In Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. University of Chicago Press. 2013. p. 201-222

Ravignani A, Matellán Olivera V, Gingras B, Hofer R, Rodríguez Hernández C, Sonnweber RS et al. Primate drum kit: a system for studying acoustic pattern production by non-human primates using acceleration and strain sensors. Sensors. 2013;13(8):9790-9820. doi: 10.3390/s130809790

Fitch WT, Zuberbühler K. Primate Precursors to Human Language: Beyond Discontinuity. In The Evolution of Emotional Communication. Oxford University Press. 2013