Sunday 7 August 2016

Ronan Keeps The Beat

At the Pinniped Cognition and Sensory Systems laboratory, Ronan the sea lion is the first non-human mammal shown able to find and keep the beat with musical stimuli. This challenges earlier evidence from humans and parrots suggesting that complex vocal mimicry is a necessary precondition for flexible rhythmic entrainment.



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