Studying audience effects in animals: what we can learn from human language research

Brittany Coppinger¹, Ryan A Cannistraci¹, Ferhat Karaman¹, Steven C Kyle¹, Elizabeth A Hobson^{2

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4}, Todd M Freeberg^{1

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6}, Jessica F Hay^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.
² National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.
³ ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.
⁴ Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
⁵ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.
⁶ NeuroNET Research Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.

Brittany Coppinger et al. Anim Behav. 2017 Feb.

. 2017 Feb:124:161-165.

doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.020. Epub 2017 Jan 19.

Brittany Coppinger¹, Ryan A Cannistraci¹, Ferhat Karaman¹, Steven C Kyle¹, Elizabeth A Hobson^{2

3

4}, Todd M Freeberg^{1

5

6}, Jessica F Hay^{1

6}

¹ Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.
² National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.
³ ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.
⁴ Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
⁵ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.
⁶ NeuroNET Research Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.

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