Developing an Animal Model for Human Rhythm Perception.
Rouse, Andrew.
2019
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Every human culture has some form of music with a beat, a regularly occurring perceived pulse in an auditory pattern to which people can entrain movements. This ability to entrain relies on complex neurological mechanisms that are not well understood, so we need a model species to properly investigate. The zebra finch is a promising candidate with excellent auditory discrimination abilities, but ... read morethe first step in evaluating their suitability is to identify whether they can discriminate regular versus irregular sequences of sounds (a prerequisite to being able to coordinate movement to an auditory pattern). Using a custom automated system and a modified go/no-go paradigm, I successfully trained zebra finches (n=4) to classify novel auditory patterns based on regularity. Developing an animal model of rhythm perception would open the door for investigating the role of specific neural pathways and mechanisms, and lead to a more complete understanding of human rhythmic abilities.
Thesis (M.S.)--Tufts University, 2019.
Submitted to the Dept. of Psychology.
Advisor: Aniruddh Patel.
Committee: Mimi Kao, and Carel ten Cate.
Keyword: Psychology.read less - ID:
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