Michelle J. Spierings

This study compares vocal imitation accuracy between parrots and starlings using R2-D2 sounds, finding anatomical differences, not cognitive ones, drive species-specific variation.

This study tests whether common marmosets use pitch contour information from vocalizations to recognize familiar vs. unfamiliar conspecifics, finding no group-level differentiation.

The paper investigates belief updating in auditory perception, finding that pupil dilations correlate with computational variables like information gain and surprisal, and show no domain-specific effects.

This study identifies isochronous rhythms in chimpanzee displays, suggesting shared rhythmic mechanisms between humans and non-human primates.

The paper investigates how subsemitone changes in a non-standard trichord affect perceived consonance, finding that certain modifications reduce consonance more than others, contradicting acoustic models.