Bilateral source acoustic interaction in a syrinx model of an oscine bird

The bilateral simultaneous generation of sound in some oscine songbirds leads to complex sounds that cannot be described in terms of a superposition of the isolated sources alone. In this work, we study the appearance of complex solutions in a model for the acoustic interaction between the two sound...

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Autores principales: Laje, R., Sciamarella, D., Zanella, J., Mindlin, G.B.
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_15393755_v77_n1_p_Laje
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Sumario:The bilateral simultaneous generation of sound in some oscine songbirds leads to complex sounds that cannot be described in terms of a superposition of the isolated sources alone. In this work, we study the appearance of complex solutions in a model for the acoustic interaction between the two sound sources in birdsong. The origin of these complex oscillations can be traced to the nonlinear mode-mode interaction arising when both sources are active. As an example, we analyze a remarkable sound produced by an oscine songbird and show that the proposed dynamical scenario is compatible with the observed behavior. © 2008 The American Physical Society.