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Combinatoriality in the vocal systems of nonhuman animals [PDF]
WIREs Cognitive Science, 2019 A key challenge in the field of human language evolution is the identification of the selective conditions that gave rise to language's generative nature. Comparative data on nonhuman animals provides a powerful tool to investigate similarities and differences among nonhuman and human communication systems and to reveal convergent evolutionary ...
Engesser, Sabrina, Townsend, Simon W
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Journal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering, 2016 We previously described an analytical model regarding how human falsetto voice is produced upon interaction between the respiratory airflow and vocal fold motion.
Shinji DEGUCHI
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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. +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 +2 more
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Understanding Vocalization Might Help to Assess Stressful Conditions in Piglets
Animals, 2013 Assessing pigs’ welfare is one of the most challenging subjects in intensive pig farming. Animal vocalization analysis is a noninvasive procedure and may be used as a tool for assessing animal welfare status.
Diego Pereira Neves +5 more
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Characterization of Efficacy and Animal Safety across Four Caprine Disbudding Methodologies
Animals, 2021 There is a strong industry demand for technically simple and highly efficacious alternatives to heat cautery disbudding in goat kids that can be performed as a stand-alone procedure without adjunct anesthesia, and that result in improved overall welfare ...
Kelly M. Still Brooks +6 more
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Animals, 2019 Over the last few years, an increasing number of studies have aimed to gain more insight into the field of animal emotions. In particular, it is of interest to determine whether animals can cross-modally categorize the emotions of others.
Miléna Trösch +5 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 +2 more
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Distributed acoustic cues for caller identity in macaque vocalization [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Individual primates can be identified by the sound of their voice. Macaques have demonstrated an ability to discern conspecific identity from a harmonically structured ‘coo’ call.
Makoto Fukushima +4 more
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Vocal repertoire and individuality in the plains zebra (Equus quagga)
Royal Society Open ScienceAcoustic 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 +3 more
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