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Pseudoreplication in playback experiments, revisited a decade later

Animal Behaviour, 2001
Correspondence: D. E. Kroodsma, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, U.S.A. (e-mail: kroodsma@bio.umass.edu). About 10 years ago, several papers in Animal Behaviour addressed the quality of experimental designs in ‘playback’ experiments (Kroodsma 1989a, b, 1990a, 1992; Searcy 1989; Weary & Mountjoy 1992), and this ...
Kroodsma, DE, Byers, BE, Goodale, E, Johnson, S, Liu, WC   +4 more
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Playback experiments: design and analysis

Acta ethologica, 2000
The scientific value of the outcome of an experiment is closely related to its design and analysis. This article deals with the design issues of pseudoreplication (whether the experimental design has the statistical features needed to answer the question as posed) and execution errors (problems arising from how the experiment was conducted).
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Playback experiments for Thryothorus ludovicianus in urban backyard experiments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2015
Acoustic playback experiments were performed from June 2014 to April 2015 for Thryothorus ludovicianus (Carolina Wren) in a backyard environment in Austin, Texas. Acoustic recordings were made for pre-playback, playback, and post-playback periods for multiple song types.
David P. Knobles, Mohsen Badiey
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Vibrational Playback Experiments: Challenges and Solutions

2014
Playbacks are one of the most useful experimental tools in animal communication research. Playbacks of substrate vibrations present special challenges, but conducting high-fidelity vibrational playbacks is not difficult and depends less on the specific equipment used than on avoiding some common pitfalls. We review the major issues, describing both the
Reginald B. Cocroft, Jennifer Hamel, Quang Su, Jeremy Gibson   +3 more
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The Use of Playbacks in Behavioral Experiments

2019
Playback is a ubiquitous technique for the controlled manipulation and presentation of animal signals, and has become an invaluable tool in the study of animal communication. Playback stimuli can be manipulated or unmanipulated samples of natural signals, or they can be mathematically constructed de novo based on models of signal structure or signal ...
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Avian colour vision and avian video playback experiments

Acta ethologica, 2000
Video playback potentially allows the presentation, manipulation, and replication of realistic moving visual stimuli, in a way that is impossible with real animals or static dummies, and difficult even with mechanical models. However, there are special problems attached to the use of this technology; this article concentrates on the problem of accurate
Cuthill, IC, Hart, NS, Partridge, JC, Bennett, ATD, Hunt, S, Church, SC   +5 more
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Design of Playback Experiments: The Thornbridge Hall NATO ARW Consensus

1992
Playback is an experimental technique commonly used to investigate the significance of signals in animal communication systems. It involves replaying recordings of naturally occurring or synthesised signals to animals and noting their response. Playback has made a major contribution to our understanding of animal communication, but like any other ...
Mcgregor, Peter, Catchpole, Clive, Dabelsteen, Torben, Falls, J. Bruce, Fusani, Leonida, Gerhardt, H. Carl, Gilbert, Francis, Horn, Andrew, Klump, Georg, Kroodsma, Donald, Lambrechts, Marcel M., Mccomb, Karen, Nelson, Douglas, Pepperberg, Irene, Ratcliffe, Laurene, Searcy, William, Weary, Daniel   +16 more
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Playbacks in Behavioral Experiments

2010
Playback is a ubiquitous technique for the controlled manipulation and presentation of animal signals, and has become an invaluable tool in the study of animal communication. Playback stimuli can be manipulated or unmanipulated samples of natural signals, or they can be mathematically constructed de novo on the basis of models of signal structure or ...
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Pseudoreplication, external validity and the design of playback experiments

Animal Behaviour, 1989
Article critique sur les problemes que posent les experiences de restitution d'emissions sonores principalement en fonction de leur ...
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Primate Language and the Playback Experiment, in 1890 and 1980

Journal of the History of Biology, 2005
The playback experiment – the playing back of recorded animal sounds to the animals in order to observe their responses – has twice become central to celebrated researches on non-human primates. First, in the years around 1890, Richard Garner, an amateur scientist and evolutionary enthusiast, used the new wax cylinder phonograph to record and reproduce
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