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Carel ten Cate
Researcher at Leiden University
Publications - 137
Citations - 6134
Carel ten Cate is an academic researcher from Leiden University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Zebra finch & Streptopelia. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 134 publications receiving 5549 citations. Previous affiliations of Carel ten Cate include University of Groningen & University of Cambridge.
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Budgerigars and zebra finches differ in how they generalize in an artificial grammar learning experiment
TL;DR: Zebra finches and budgerigars abstracted the relation among items in the XYX and XXY structures, an ability similar to that shown by human infants and indicating a level of abstraction comparable to analogical reasoning.
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Rule learning by zebra finches in an artificial grammar learning task: which rule?
Caroline A. A. van Heijningen,Jiani Chen,Irene van Laatum,Bonnie van der Hulst,Carel ten Cate +4 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate only a limited degree of abstract rule learning but highlight the need for extensive and critical probe testing to examine the rules that animals (and humans) use to solve artificial grammar learning tasks and underline that rule learning strategies may differ between individuals.
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The interobserver reliability of scoring sonagrams by eye : a study on methods, illustrated on zebra finch songs
TL;DR: Various aspects of interobserver reliability in relation to sonagram analysis are discussed, illustrated with some worked example sets involving comparisons of zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata, songs.
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The Progressive Loss of Syntactical Structure in Bird Song along an Island Colonization Chain
Robert F. Lachlan,Robert F. Lachlan,Robert F. Lachlan,Machteld N. Verzijden,Machteld N. Verzijden,Caroline S. Bernard,Peter-Paul Jonker,Bram Koese,Shirley Jaarsma,Willemijn Spoor,Peter J. B. Slater,Carel ten Cate +11 more
TL;DR: Novel computational methods are used to analyze chaffinch song from twelve island and continental populations and to infer patterns of evolution in song structure, suggesting that colonization leads to the progressive loss of a species-specific feature of song, syntactical structure.
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Zebra finches exhibit speaker-independent phonetic perception of human speech
Verena R. Ohms,Arike Gill,Caroline A. A. van Heijningen,Gabriel J. L. Beckers,Carel ten Cate +4 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) can discriminate and categorize monosyllabic words that differ in their vowel and transfer this categorization to the same words spoken by novel speakers independent of the sex of the voices.