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Rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations: a cross‐species perspective [PDF]

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2019
AbstractWhy does human speech have rhythm? As we cannot travel back in time to witness how speech developed its rhythmic properties and why humans have the cognitive skills to process them, we rely on alternative methods to find out. One powerful tool is the comparative approach: studying the presence or absence of cognitive/behavioral traits in other ...
Ravignani A., Dalla Bella S., Falk S., Kello C. T., Noriega F., Kotz S. A.   +5 more
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Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals, and Robots [PDF]

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2016
Almost all animals exploit vocal signals for a range of ecologically motivated purposes: detecting predators/prey and marking territory, expressing emotions, establishing social relations, and sharing information. Whether it is a bird raising an alarm, a whale calling to potential partners, a dog responding to human commands, a parent reading a story ...
Roger K. Moore, Ricard Marxer, Serge Thill   +2 more
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Animal Sound Identifier (ASI): software for automated identification of vocal animals [PDF]

Ecology Letters, 2018
AbstractAutomated audio recording offers a powerful tool for acoustic monitoring schemes of bird, bat, frog and other vocal organisms, but the lack of automated species identification methods has made it difficult to fully utilise such data. We developed Animal Sound Identifier (ASI), a MATLAB software that performs probabilistic classification of ...
Ovaskainen, Otso, Moliterno De Camargo, Ulisses, Somervuo, Panu, Lawler, Joshua   +3 more
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Selectivity for Animal Vocalizations in the Human Auditory Cortex [PDF]

Cerebral Cortex, 2007
We aimed at testing the cortical representation of complex natural sounds within auditory cortex using human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). To this end, we employed 2 different paradigms in the same subjects: a block-design experiment was to provide a localization of areas involved in the processing of animal vocalizations, whereas an ...
Christian F, Altmann, Oliver, Doehrmann, Jochen, Kaiser   +2 more
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Neural control of vocalization in bats: mapping of brainstem areas with electrical microstimulation eliciting species-specific echolocation calls in the rufous horseshoe bat [PDF]

, 1990
1. The functional role of brainstem structures in the emission of echolocation calls was investigated in the rufous horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus rouxi, with electrical low-current microstimulation procedures. 2.
Radtke-Schuller, Susanne, Schuller, Gerd
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Estimating animal population density using passive acoustics

, 2013
Reliable estimation of the size or density of wild animal populations is very important for effective wildlife management, conservation and ecology. Currently, the most widely used methods for obtaining such estimates involve either sighting animals from
Ward, Jessica, Jessica A. Ward, David J. Moretti, David K. Mellinger, Mellinger, David K., Martin, Stephen, Harris, Danielle, Tyack, Peter Lloyd, Stephen W. Martin, Ward, Jessica A., Marques, Tiago A., Moretti, David, Len Thomas, Tyack, Peter L., Harris, Danielle Veronica, Tiago A. Marques, Mellinger, David, Danielle Harris, Peter L. Tyack, Thomas, Len, Martin, Stephen W.   +20 more
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Vocal repertoire and individuality in the plains zebra (Equus quagga)

Royal Society Open Science
Acoustic signals are vital in animal communication, and quantifying them is fundamental for understanding animal behaviour and ecology. Vocalizations can be classified into acoustically and functionally or contextually distinct categories, but ...
Bing Xie, Virgile Daunay, Troels C. Petersen, Elodie F. Briefer   +3 more
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A Brain for Speech. Evolutionary Continuity in Primate and Human Auditory-Vocal Processing

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018
In this review article, I propose a continuous evolution from the auditory-vocal apparatus and its mechanisms of neural control in non-human primates, to the peripheral organs and the neural control of human speech.
Francisco Aboitiz
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Optimal features for auditory categorization

Nature Communications, 2019
Vocalizations such as speech or animal calls have high variability in production. Here, the authors report that a few mid-level acoustic features provide sufficient information to generalize across this variability and classify vocalization types and ...
Shi Tong Liu, Pilar Montes-Lourido, Xiaoqin Wang, Srivatsun Sadagopan   +3 more
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Human cerebral response to animal affective vocalizations [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2007
It is presently unknown whether our response to affective vocalizations is specific to those generated by humans or more universal, triggered by emotionally matched vocalizations generated by other species. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging in normal participants to measure cerebral activity during auditory stimulation with ...
Pascal, Belin, Shirley, Fecteau, Ian, Charest, Nicholas, Nicastro, Marc D, Hauser, Jorge L, Armony   +5 more
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