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Operant Conditioning Task to Measure Song Preference in Zebra Finches
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Zebra finches transform manipulated songs with shuffled syllables to exhibit linguistic laws
1Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA. masonyoungblood@gmail.com.
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