Methods to Assess the Processing of Speech Sounds by Animals
Joan M. Sinnott · Birkhäuser Basel eBooks · 1995
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. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.