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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Communication, when defined as an act intended to affect the psychological state of another individual, demands the use of inference. Either the signaler, the recipient, or both must make leaps of understanding which surpass the semantic information ...
Elizabeth Warren, Josep Call
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 Mice use ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) to convey a variety of socially relevant information. These vocalizations are affected by the sex, age, strain, and emotional state of the emitter and can thus be used to characterize it.
Yizhaq Goussha +5 more
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Influence of Anthropogenic Sounds on Insect, Anuran and Bird Acoustic Signals: A Meta-Analysis
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Acoustic communication is a way of information exchange between individuals, and it is used by several animal species. Therefore, the detection, recognition and correct understanding of acoustic signals are key factors in effective communication.
Lidiane Gomes +4 more
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GeoDanceHive: An Operational Hive for Honeybees Dances Recording
Animals, 2023 Honeybees are known for their ability to communicate about resources in their environment. They inform the other foragers by performing specific dance sequences according to the spatial characteristics of the resource.
Sylvain Galopin +3 more
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An ecological and neurobiological perspective on the evolution of vocal learning
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Vocal production learning (VPL) involves the use of auditory experience to guide the production of novel signals or to modify pre-existing signals. It allows animals to develop signals that are more complex and/or more flexible than innately developed ...
Eliot A. Brenowitz +3 more
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Animal Communication: Timing Counts [PDF]
Current Biology, 2007 Collective signalling in animals has fascinated biologists for a long time. A recent study on Australian songbirds sheds new light on the function of highly coordinated avian duets.
Brumm, H., Slater, P.
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The Pastoral Origin of Semiotically Functional Tonal Organization of Music
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This paper presents a new line of inquiry into when and how music as a semiotic system was born. Eleven principal expressive aspects of music each contains specific structural patterns whose configuration signifies a certain affective state.
Aleksey Nikolsky
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 To function effectively, animal signals must transmit through the environment to receivers, and signal transmission properties depend on signal form. Here we investigated how the transmission of multiple parts of a well-studied signal, bird song, varies ...
Lauryn Benedict +2 more
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The importance of visual markings in night birds. The case of the Eagle Owl, Bubo bubo
Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2012 This work brings together the results of a series of researches on the importance of the visual communication for nocturnal birds, carried out using the Eagle Owl as a model species.
Vincenzo Penteriani +2 more
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Higher social tolerance is associated with more complex facial behavior in macaques
eLife, 2023 The social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity posits that animal societies with more complex social systems require more complex communication systems. We tested the social complexity hypothesis on three macaque species that vary in their
Alan V Rincon +6 more
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