Sentences with phrase «use vocalizations»

Dolphins also use vocalizations to echolocate for navigation and hunting.

Dogs will generally try to avoid conflict so they use their vocalizations as part of what allows other dogs to tune into their emotions whether they're in an aggressive or playful mood.

These cats often learn to use vocalizations to attempt to communicate with their pet parents.

Cat's use vocalizations to express emotion.

How wild house mice use their vocalizations, however, remains largely unresearched.

«This suggests that wolves, to a certain extent, may be able to use their vocalizations in a flexible way.»

The researchers found that ringtailed lemurs (above) use vocalizations far more selectively than previously thought, primarily exchanging calls with individuals with which they have close relationships.

Does he use vocalizations and sounds to get your attention?

Through their partnership, Klin eventually persuaded Ramsay to study the younger siblings to identify differences in their vocal interactions with the hope of one day screening for autism using vocalizations.

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.

The clicker is typically a mechanical device (although some people just use vocalization) which emits a pleasant, you guessed it, «click» sound to reinforce a puppy's good behavior.

A dominant fox uses vocalizations, staring, and ear flattening to cause another fox to submit.

Not exact matches

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.

Amy used coping techniques including breathing, focus, going within, movement, vocalization, and water to achieve her natural water birth.

Your son should also be using gestures and vocalizations to get his wants and needs met.

This term is used to describe the process of focusing on your child's vocalizations, body language and facial expression in order to understand what your child needs, wants and feels.

There, the apes learned to communicate with caregivers using gestures, vocalizations and visual symbols (mainly geometric shapes) called lexigrams.

THE USE OF VOCALIZATIONS, such as grunts, songs or barks, is extremely common throughout the animal kingdom.

A team led by voice scientist Christian Herbst, now of the University of Olomouc in the Czech Republic, used the donated larynx of a dead elephant to study the process of vocalization, which he says opens new possibilities for researching oice projection problems in people.

The researchers were interested in finding out whether the brain responded differently when emotions were expressed through vocalizations (sounds such as growls, laughter or sobbing, where no words are used) or through language.

Using these parameters to evaluate mouse vocalizations, researchers were able to identify stuttering mice over a 3.5 - minute period.

Brain activity was measured using electroencephalography (EEG) during each trial of the cognitive task, which took place immediately after a two - second audio clip of an infant vocalization.

More recently, vocalizations have also been used to uncover cryptic species otherwise similar in body appearance.

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.

Many animals use smell or vocalization to identify individuals, making distinctive facial features unimportant, especially for animals that roam after dark, he said.

We have now shown that birds use the exact same mechanism to make vocalizations.

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.

The lemurs» use of grooming and vocalization to establish greater levels of familiarity could help scientists understand how forms of communication are interrelated, Rubenstein said.

Many scientists thus refrain from using the word crying when referring to nonhumans, preferring to talk about distress vocalizations, or describe the acoustical properties of the sound.

Crying as an emotional expression has been used to describe the vocalizations of many primates, including the coo vocalizations of squirrel monkeys and the whimpers and screams of chimpanzees.

Crying has also been used to describe the vocalizations of monkey and ape infants when they are being weaned, and when they are separated from their mothers (either temporarily due to losing sight of the mother or permanently due to maternal death).

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

But upon realizing that there were no settlements nearby, she decided to keep busy by using recording equipment to analyze the vocalizations of chimpanzees.

Once the answer would have been a simple no: although animals may communicate by issuing a bark, shriek, or moo, those vocalizations — to use the animal behaviorists» careful distinction — were assumed to have no specific internal meaning.

Mouse vocalizations are also used as a model system in research into neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism.

«The composition of the complex vocalizations and the use of the different sound sequences are the object of increasing study, but much remains unknown,» says study Sarah Zala, the first author of the study.

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.

We used x-ray videos to quantify vocal tract dynamics in living macaques during vocalization, facial displays, and feeding.

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.

They live in tightly knit social groups, have complex relationships, communicate with each other using language - like vocalizations, and even have regional dialects.

Denounced as a heretic for his vocalizations, Marston aims to use the Bishop's tribulation to tell a powerful allegory on the importance of inclusivity.

Stance and vocalizations can also be used to tell male cockatiels and parakeets apart from females, even while young.

Our feline friends use a combination of vocalizations, body language and smells to talk with each other and their special people.

«While there are fewer than a dozen types of barks, there are hundreds of different ear positions, tail positions, paw positions and more, which dogs use to communicate,» says Lisa Mullinax, CPDT - KA (certified professional dog trainer - knowledge assessed), for 4Paws University Inc. «Body signals give dogs a much more elaborate language than vocalizations could.»

Use the spray bottle as a training aid to punish the animal for vocalization after you have given your command to stop barking.

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

This in part is attributed to «feline resistance,» a catch - all term used by the study to define the hiding, aggression vocalization, and stressed / fearful behavior cats exhibit when crated and transported to unfamiliar surroundings.

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

Your cat learns which of its vocalizations you respond to best and will use them to its advantage.

Rabbits are capable of some vocalizations that they use for communication, which sometimes surprises owners.