News tagged with vocal behavior
Screaming Hoops Fans at Risk for Vocal Problems
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the ACC tourney gearing up and March Madness getting in full swing, basketball fans are topping decibel charts with their verbal support for their favorite college team.
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Songbirds' elaborate cries for food show first signs of vocal learning
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Only a handful of social animals -- songbirds, some marine mammals, some bats and humans -- learn to actively style their vocal communications. Babies, for instance, start by babbling, their first chance ...
Birds can dance, really
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Researchers at Harvard University have found that humans aren't the only ones who can groove to a beat -- some other species can dance, too. This capability was previously believed to be specific to humans. ...
Transgenic songbirds provide new tool to understand the brain
Sep 29, 2009 |
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A new genetic tool will enable scientists to study vocal learning and neurogenesis at the molecular level in songbirds.
A mechanical model of vocalization
Nov 23, 2009 |
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When people speak, sing, or shout, they produce sound by pushing air over their vocal folds -- bits of muscle and tissue that manipulate the air flow and vibrate within it. When someone has polyps or some other problem with ...
High-tech imaging of inner ear sheds light on hearing, behavior of oldest fossil bird
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 14, 2009 |
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The earliest known bird, the magpie-sized Archaeopteryx, had a similar hearing range to the modern emu, which suggests that the 145 million-year-old creature — despite its reptilian teeth and long tail — was ...
Transgenic songbirds provide new tool to understand the brain
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the decades, scientists have learned a lot about the basic life processes shared by many animals — including people — by manipulating the DNA of the "lower" species, such as mice and worms. But to date, ...
From humming fish to Puccini: Vocal communication evolved with ancient species
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Jul 17, 2008 |
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It's a long way from the dull hums of the amorous midshipman fish to the strains of a Puccini aria – or, alas, even to the simplest Celine Dion melody. But the neural circuitry that led to the human love song – not to mention ...
Bird brains suggest how vocal learning evolved
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Mar 12, 2008 |
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Though they perch far apart on the avian family tree, birds with the ability to learn songs use similar brain structures to sing their tunes. Neurobiologists at Duke University Medical Center now have an explanation for this ...
New research demonstrates humans' right ear preference for listening
Jun 23, 2009 |
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We humans prefer to be addressed in our right ear and are more likely to perform a task when we receive the request in our right ear rather than our left. In a series of three studies, looking at ear preference ...
The secret life of frogs
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Notre Dame biologist Sunny Boyd's research is a little like "Match.com" for amphibians. Say you're a female tree frog looking for a mate--how do you choose among a number of ...
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