Sentences with phrase «studies vocal communication»

As a scientist who studies vocal communication in mammals, she decided to investigate the manipulative meow.

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Notice here that we do not use the words «spoken» and «heard,» because studies in communication have shown how much depends not only on explicit verbal content, but on appearance, gesture, and facial expressiveness as well as vocal tone and inflection, and how all of these are interpreted through the ethos of a particular congregation.

«Gall and Damsky's experiment helps us understand how human - caused noise can interfere with the transfer of information among animals in social groups,» according Florida Atlantic University's Rindy Anderson, an expert in vocal communication in birds who was not involved with the study.

Toward this end, in the 1980s, Rosenthal started studying covert communication: the nonverbal language of vocal tone, facial expressions, posture and gestures that make up the bulk of human expression.

Kershenbaum and colleagues believe that studying the sounds of other intelligent species that use vocal communication for cooperative behaviour — such as wolves and dolphins — may provide clues to the earliest evolution of our own use of language.

«Genes for speech may not be limited to humans: Study shows vocal communication in mice is affected by the same gene needed for speech in humans.»

Specific focus areas include: behavioral response studies, laboratory research on hearing and noise impacts; field research on pinniped vocal communication; noise exposure criteria and research recommendations; work with both conventional and alternative energy industries to understand and minimize environmental impacts of resource acquisition.

I'm a musician studying communications and vocal performance at George Mason University.

The aforementioned vocal elements, content, and nonverbal behaviors were incorporated into this study because of their prevalence in the communication based literature devoted to interpersonal attraction.

So there's a famous study that was done a while ago by Dr. Albert Mehrabian, that showed that only 7 % of our communication is conveyed through words, 38 % is from our vocal tonality, and the rest (55 %) is through «nonverbal elements,» such as your posture, gestures, and facial expressions.