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Here are described some procedures designed to assess the capacities of animals to detect, discriminate, and identify human speech sounds. All procedures use a go/no-go response, which is taught to animals using operant conditioning techniques based on positive (food) reinforcement. All procedures are easily learned by animals, and allow for direct comparisons with human subjects, who can be tested with the same methods.
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Sinnott, J.M. (1995). Methods to Assess the Processing of Speech Sounds by Animals. In: Klump, G.M., Dooling, R.J., Fay, R.R., Stebbins, W.C. (eds) Methods in Comparative Psychoacoustics. BioMethods. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7463-2_24
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