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Carel ten Cate

Professor of Animal Behaviour, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, NL
Verified email at biology.leidenuniv.nl
Cited by 9681

A noisy spring: the impact of globally rising underwater sound levels on fish

…, I van Opzeeland, A Coers, C ten Cate… - Trends in ecology & …, 2010 - cell.com
The underwater environment is filled with biotic and abiotic sounds, many of which can be
important for the survival and reproduction of fish. Over the last century, human activities in …

The impact of learning on sexual selection and speciation

MN Verzijden, C Ten Cate, MR Servedio… - Trends in ecology & …, 2012 - cell.com
… Carel ten Cate Carel ten Cate … Preference learning has now been demonstrated in
insects (a–c), amphibians (d), fish (e) and several species of birds (f–h). Calopteryx splendens …

Revisiting the syntactic abilities of non-human animals: natural vocalizations and artificial grammar learning

C ten Cate, K Okanoya - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… By examining songs of zebra finches exposed to two tutors in succession, ten Cate & Slater
[19… van Heijningen C., Chen J., van Laatum I., van der Hulst B.& ten Cate , C. Submitted. Rule …

Low-frequency songs lose their potency in noisy urban conditions

…, J Komdeur, C ten Cate… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
… We are very grateful to C. Both for being able to work at his research sites and giving his …
We are very grateful to C. Both for being able to work at his research sites and giving his …

Without it no music: Cognition, biology and evolution of musicality

H Honing, C ten Cate, I Peretz… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Musicality can be defined as a natural, spontaneously developing trait based on and
constrained by biology and cognition. Music, by contrast, can be defined as a social and cultural …

Sexual imprinting and evolutionary processes

C Ten Cate, DR Vos - Advances in the Study of Behavior, 1999 - books.google.com
… It is hence no wonder that, with only a few exceptions (ten Cate and Bateson, 1988;
Gould and Gould, 1989; ten Cate, 1991; Weary, Guilford, and Weisman, 1993, Laland, 1994; …

Simple rules can explain discrimination of putative recursive syntactic structures by a songbird species

…, J De Visser, W Zuidema, C Ten Cate - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
… 2C for average discrimination ratios per 100 trials before and after transfer to 2 × 5 novel
songs of each structure. After transfer, the average DR remained >0.50. The slight drop …

Temporal structure of sound affects behavioural recovery from noise impact in European seabass

…, J Seitz, RA Kastelein, HV Winter, C Ten Cate… - Biological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Human activities in and around waters generate a substantial amount of underwater noise,
which may negatively affect aquatic life including fish. In order to better predict and assess …

Early learning influences species assortative mating preferences in Lake Victoria cichlid fish

MN Verzijden, C ten Cate - Biology letters, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Carel ten Cate … Carel ten Cate … Water temperature was 24.5C, ±1C, light regime was
12 L : 12 D. Fish were fed daily with fresh shrimp and peas or commercial pellets and flakes. …

Biases in signal evolution: learning makes a difference

C Ten Cate, C Rowe - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2007 - cell.com
It is now well established that signal receivers have a key role in the evolution of animal
communication: the suite of sensory and cognitive processes by which animals perceive and …