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Barn owls can learn to remember complex noise spectra and distinguish them from slightly different spectral patterns.
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Konishi, M., Stephen Kenuk, A. Discrimination of noise spectra by memory in the barn owl. J. Comp. Physiol. 97, 55–58 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00635648
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