Psychology says people who recognize songs from the first few notes may have highly efficient auditory pattern recognition

People who recognize songs from the first few notes may be demonstrating an impressive form of auditory pattern recognition ...
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Whales sing in a rhythm strikingly like human speech — scientists just found their songs follow the same mathematical pattern buried in every human language

A humpback whale off New Caledonia can hold a song for 30 minutes or longer, cycling through phrases that shift and evolve across breeding seasons. To the human ear, the performance sounds alien. But ...