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Title: Evidence and control of bifurcations in a respiratory system

Journal Article · · Chaos (Woodbury, N. Y.)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4854395· OSTI ID:22250898
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  1. Laboratorio de Sistemas Dinámicos, IFIBA y Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

We studied the pressure patterns used by domestic canaries in the production of birdsong. Acoustically different sound elements (“syllables”) were generated by qualitatively different pressure gestures. We found that some ubiquitous transitions between syllables can be interpreted as bifurcations of a low dimensional dynamical system. We interpreted these results as evidence supporting a model in which different timescales interact nonlinearly.

OSTI ID:
22250898
Journal Information:
Chaos (Woodbury, N. Y.), Vol. 23, Issue 4; Other Information: (c) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1054-1500
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English