Invariant recognition of words and naturalistic sounds in non-human primates
Melchor, J.; Moran, I.; Figueroa, T.; Lemus, L.
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The ability to invariably identify spoken words and other naturalistic sounds in different temporal modulations and timbres requires perceptual tolerance to numerous acoustic variations. However, the mechanisms by which auditory information is perceived to be invariant are poorly understood, and no study has explicitly tested the perceptual constancy skills of nonhuman primates. We investigated the ability of two trained rhesus monkeys to learn and then recognize multiple sounds that included multisyllabic words. Importantly, we tested their ability to group unexperienced sounds into corresponding categories. We found that the monkeys adequately categorized sounds whose formants were at close Euclidean distance to the learned sounds. Our results indicate that macaques can attend and memorize complex sounds such as words. This ability was not studied or reported before and can be used to study the neuronal mechanisms underlying auditory perception.
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