Sentences with phrase «produce vocalizations»

«The finding is exciting,» says Bottjer, «because it provides a rare example of changes in neural activity that correspond with behavioral attempts to achieve a mental goal; in this case, to produce vocalizations that mimic the memory of a sound.

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

When exposed to adult male Samburu voices, listening elephants exhibited vigilance behavior, flight behavior, and produced vocalizations (rumbles, roars and trumpets).

Not exact matches

A simple vocalization is easy to produce.

2 - whether certain emotions are recognized more quickly through vocalizations than others and produce larger brain responses; and

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.

Their vocalizations, among the loudest produced by any animal, resonate across the jungle, and can be heard from up to 5 kilometers away.

Training for parents and caregivers: Parents from low - income families could receive training on how to interact positively and reliably with their children to help them increase their vocabularies, imitate more conversations, and produce more vocalizations.

Just as pipers first produce a low drone and then layer on additional tones, throat singers start with a droned vocalization and then manipulate their vocal folds, root of the tongue or epiglottis — a flap of cartilage at the base of the tongue — to add additional notes.

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.

Many of these mammals produce specific vocalizations that can be used to identify the species and track their locations via acoustic monitoring.

In response to threats from predators, elephants are known to produce a variety of vocalizations, including rumbles, roars and trumpets [21], but until recently the alarm call system of the African elephant has received little systematic attention.

The microphone array allowed for the identification of vocalizations produced by the target family, by comparing the relative amplitudes on the three microphones.

Although puppies only enter into this deeper state of sleep for short periods, they are sufficient to produce shivering, vocalizations and body movements.