Sentences with phrase «human vocalizations»

He was interested in the way many species use song for sexual display and wondered if human vocalizations might have started out that way too.

But by 6 months, the link has narrowed, with only human vocalizations supporting categorization.

In the new study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain responses in sleeping babies while they were presented with emotionally neutral, positive, or negative human vocalizations or nonvocal environmental sounds.

That activity appeared in an area of the temporal lobe known in adults for its role in processing human vocalizations.

Not exact matches

First of all is the biological organism with its big brain, its upright posture, its hand and opposed thumb, its vocal organs making possible enormous variety in vocalization so that language and other symbols can develop to expand indefinitely the range of meaning, entering into human life.

Interestingly, but not really surprising, when a human infants inherent need for contact and proximity (reassurance through touch, parent directed vocalizations, emotional support) are met by parents early in their lives rather than becoming «dependent» as is always suggested in the popular press the reverse is actually true: that is, early dependence leads to early independence and self sufficiency and, perhaps even, enhanced self — confidence.

Nevertheless, humans are the only species in which these vocalizations have attained the sophistication and communicative effectiveness of speech.

«Flexible vocalizations in wild bonobos show similarities to development of human speech.»

The sequencing of genomes of 48 bird species explains the evolutionary roots of vocalization and could offer insight into human speech disorders

Scientists have assumed these tunes are hardwired in their tiny mouse brains and doubted that rodents modify their songs after hearing others — a cognitive feat similar to vocalizations by birds and some mammals, including dolphins, bats and humans.

In modern humans, who lack air sacs, that bone supports the tongue muscles, enabling a wide range of vocalizations.

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.

At 3 months old, listening to both human and nonhuman primate (lemur) vocalizations supports infants» ability to form categories, a building block of cognition.

Bioacoustics expert Bill Evans of Texas A&M University in Galveston calls the discovery «interesting,» as it means that dolphins are among the few types of vertebrates — the others being birds and humans — capable of learning new vocalizations throughout their lives.

Mice usually sing to each other through a kind of song called ultrasonic vocalizations, which are too high - pitched for a human to hear.

To find out, a team of researchers devised an online survey to assess how humans perceive the emotional content of human and dog vocalizations.

«Finches offer researchers a new tool with which to study Huntington's disease: Like humans, songbirds learn their vocalizations, suggesting they could be useful as models for certain disorders.»

Like humans, songbirds such as zebra finches (above) can learn vocalizations, and this similarity suggests they could serve as models for research on Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders that affect speech and vocalization.

Brain Institute demonstrates in songbirds the necessity of this neural circuit to learn vocalizations at a young age, a finding that expands the scientific understanding of some contributing factors in speech disorders in humans.

Based on sketchy fossil evidence, some anthropologists argue that Neanderthals could make limited vocalizations but that they lacked the full range of modern humans; in particular, they were probably limited in the vowel sounds they could produce.

This year molecular biologist Wolfgang Enard of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, explored that possibility with an extraordinary experiment: He inserted the human version of FOXP2 into mice and studied the effects on the creatures» brains and vocalizations.

The findings could have implications for how scientists understand the evolution of primate vocalizations and human speech.

In both songbirds and humans, feedback of self - produced vocalizations is compared to memorized vocal sounds and progressively refined to achieve a correct imitation.

And although birds and frogs, like humans, process their vocalizations mostly on one side of the brain, they don't tend to show a marked preference for one limb over the other.

Because giant pandas depend in large part on information transmitted through vocalizations for reproductive success, noise from human activities in or near forest areas could be disruptive.

U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni hailed the finding, noting that it «offers unexpected insights on the origins of spoken language and could open up new approaches to understanding vocalization disorders in humans.»

«If [Plooij] has all the vocalizations and the field notes that say what was happening at the time, it would be much easier for me to see how those particular grunts related to what I find in human infants.»

But a few mammals such as bats, whales and elephants use complex and varied vocalizations that share some characteristics with human speech such as the ability to learn vocalizations from other members of their social group.

There are no theories that explain fully how human language works, so maybe animal vocalizations and the way that they signal to each other can give us insight into our own minds and how we represent and understand the world.

In an interview with NIMBioS, Waller elaborated on the goals of the Social Predator Vocalization Project and its potential for helping coyotes and wolves live peaceably with humans.

I realized that the questions researchers have about dolphin vocalizations were the same questions that philosophers have about the nature of human meaning and language use.

Also, elephants are known to exhibit vocal flexibility and vocal learning, by vocally imitating environmental sounds and the vocalizations of other species, including different elephant species and humans [62], [63].

We previously found parallel FoxP2 expression patterns in human and songbird cortico / pallio - striatal circuits important for learned vocalizations, suggesting that FoxP2's function in birdsong may generalize to speech.

The artists discuss the unique challenges of utilizing the vocalizations of the human actors for the apes, how the trailer for Cloverfield drove the movie and the challenge of making a scary monster movie with no musical score, and why Michael Giacchino originally did not want to write the score for Let Me In.

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.

The way the bitch or human handler responds to a puppy's vocalization of distress and general behavior may determine how the puppy reacts to stressful situations later in life.

One study at Cornell University suggests that cats use different vocalizations to get what they want from humans.

Cats have vocalizations that seem to have been tailored for use specifically for interaction with humans and not typically with other cats.

As is the case with humans, altered perception can result in increased vocalization.

The bottom line is that we humans need to «listen with our eyes» and not focus only on vocalizations or wagging tails that may result in a biting incident.

Research into cat sounds and the effect they have on humans has revealed some interesting points, including how cats get what they want from people by using vocalizations.

It's a myth that cats are aloof and unemotional; cats show affection to humans using a combination of body language, postures and vocalizations.

Deprived of the gift of language and with a limited array of vocalizations (compared to humans), dogs rely mainly on subtle body cues to communicate.

The very hyper movement is often accompanied by vocalizations that sound a lot like a human laugh.

Barking is as natural a vocalization for dogs as speaking is for humans.

Part of acting like a stallion is displaying hormonally charged behaviors, which include physical aggression with peers and with human beings, loud and piercing vocalizations, efforts to mount female horses, masturbation and even occasionally self - mutilation due to anxiety.

Dogs have a wide range of vocalizations, all designed to help them get along in their human or canine pack.

Vocalization may occur as howl, bark, growl, yelp, whine or any combination, while aggressive reaction to palpation of the affected body part may occur as a snarl or even as an attempt to bite or attack human or other animals.

Changes in usual behaviors and routines Changes in interactions with humans and other pets Grooming changes Activity changes such as sleeping patterns, jumping, wandering, reacting to being handled, and ability to navigate to preferred places Vocalization (especially yowling at night Changes in litter box habits Eating and drinking (amount and behavior); vomiting or signs of nausea Stool quality (number, volume, consistency, odor, color) Urine quality and / or quantity (volume, frequency, color, odor) Hearing or vision loss (decreased responsiveness, increased voVocalization (especially yowling at night Changes in litter box habits Eating and drinking (amount and behavior); vomiting or signs of nausea Stool quality (number, volume, consistency, odor, color) Urine quality and / or quantity (volume, frequency, color, odor) Hearing or vision loss (decreased responsiveness, increased vocalizationvocalization).

For humans, the terms «speech» and «talk» are not restricted to vocalization, but encompass human body language (which most of us read without realizing it), gestural languages (sign language) and tactile languages (of deaf - blind individuals) which are equally expressive among those fluent in their use.