News tagged with ultrasonic vocalizations
Unusual ultrasonic vocalization patterns in mice may be useful for modeling autism
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Aug 27, 2008 |
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Scientists have found novel patterns of ultrasonic vocalizations in a genetic mouse model of autism, adding a unique element to the available mouse behaviors that capture components of the human disease, and representing ...
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Infants able to identify humans as source of speech, monkeys as source of monkey calls
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Infants as young as five months old are able to correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkeys as the source of monkey calls, psychology researchers have found. Their finding, which appears in the latest issue ...
Mouse calls help search for emotion-controlling genes
Apr 02, 2008 |
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Scientists have long known that emotions and other personality traits and disorders run together in families. But finding which genes are most important in controlling emotions has proven difficult. Humans and mice have similar ...
Scientists discover ultrasonic communication among frogs
May 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA scientists report for the first time on the only known frog species that can communicate using purely ultrasonic calls, whose frequencies are too high to be heard by humans. Known as ...
Measuring sound with a nanoscopic air bubble
Dec 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It will soon be possible to measure ultrasonic sound using water, air, light and nanotechnology – over a hundred times more accurately than with existing sensors.
Scientists try to interpret horse speak
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Jun 05, 2006 |
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U.S. researchers are listening to horse vocalizations in an attempt to interpret how stress is communicated when the animals whinny.
Monkeys use 'baby talk' to interact with infants
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Aug 24, 2007 |
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Female rhesus monkeys use special vocalizations while interacting with infants, the way human adults use motherese, or “baby talk,” to engage babies’ attention, new research at the University of Chicago shows. ...
Honest lovers? Fallow buck groans reveal their status and size during the rut
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Sep 03, 2008 |
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It is known that the phonic structure of calls produced by males during the breeding season may signal quality-related characteristics in many different types of animals. Previous research on mammals has mainly focussed on ...
Whose voice is that? Scientists discover 'voice' area in the brain of nonhuman primate
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Feb 15, 2008 |
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For vocal animals, recognising species-specific vocalizations is important for survival and social interactions. In humans, a ‘voice' region has been identified that is sensitive to human voices and vocalizations. As this ...
Reconstructing the evolution of laughter in great apes and humans
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Like human infants, young apes are known to hoot and holler when you tickle them. But is it fair to say that those playful calls are really laughter? The answer to that question is yes, say researchers reporting ...
TV noise associated with fewer verbal interactions between infants and parents
Jun 01, 2009 |
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For every hour they spend in the presence of an audible television, parents speak fewer words and infants are less likely to make vocalizations in response, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Pediatrics & ...
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