Sentences with phrase «between vocalizations»

Most happy dog barks and sounds are short with lots of pauses in between vocalizations and accompanied by lots of wagging, dancing and forward movement.

After applying the model to human speech, researchers boiled the verbal impediment down to two basic characteristics — fewer vocalizations in a given period of time and longer gaps in between each vocalization.

Professor Bass said: «Coupling of vocal and pectoral - gestural circuitry starts to get at the evolutionary origins of the coupling between vocalization (speech) and gestural signalling (hand movements).

Not exact matches

-- Between 6 and 9 months a baby continues to experiment with vocalization and also imitates high and low pitches as the adult sings high and low.

The audio data could help researchers tell the difference between narwhal vocalizations and those of neighboring beluga whales.

The key difference between species may be a matter of scent, seasonal timing, vocalization, auditory targeting of a particular prey, or some other trait.

It lays out a possible route from general calls between individuals keeping in touch when out of sight, to specific, more complex vocalizations with infants, and eventually into lullabies.

As expected, the mice carrying the mutated gene had far fewer vocalizations, with longer gaps between «speech» compared with their unmodified littermates — Gnptab mutant mice had about 80 vocalizations compared with 190 in the nonmutant mice.

In the experiments, the researchers found that merely exposing 6 - month - old infants to nonhuman primate vocalizations permits them to preserve, rather than sever, their early link between these signals and categorization.

The researchers found that, as expected, there was a linear correlation between the size of a species's hyoid and the so - called «formant spacing» of its calls, a measure of the deepness and resonance of the vocalizations; so having a big hyoid generally means producing louder roars.

Though the exact purpose of blue whale vocalizations remains elusive, researchers think the whales may use calls to maintain distance between one another, facilitate mating or signal the presence of prey, among other purposes.

Across the animal kingdom, there are links between form and function in vocalization.

These findings show a direct connection between grooming — or familiarity — and vocalization not found before, Ghazanfar said.

The finding that reciprocal vocalizations between mothers and infants were more frequent than those between fathers and infants supports our second hypothesis.

We also found strong positive correlations between beak opening and amplitude as well as changes in tongue height and amplitude in several types of vocalization.

Contrast of hemispheric lateralization for oro - facila movements between learned attention - getting sounds and species - typical vocalizations in chimpanzees: Extension in a second colony.

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

It is thought that female puppies learn care instincts during the period between 4 to 6 weeks and the response to the puppies vocalization of distress by the bitch or human may affect the way they care for their future litters.

Veterinary technicians should be able to differentiate between normal vocalization and vocalization secondary to pain or discomfort.

Less aggression was observed in the neutered groups, specifically between males, which resulted in reduced fighting and vocalizations.

Cat - to - cat communication is largely non-verbal, although aggressive behavior between cats may include hissing, spitting, and sometimes either some yowling or some short loud vocalizations.

They aren't yappy dogs, but they do have three distinct vocalizations — a bark / growl, a baying howl and a half - baying howl (a cross between a frantic bark and a bay).

Sonic differentiation between the two was based on the materials, especially the lack of vocalizations and the amount of metal and mechanical elements we chose to use.