Sentences with phrase «vocal communication»

Our group is studying the genetics of vocal communication in mammals, as a way to understand the evolution and biological basis of human speech and language.

Limited research suggests that baby sign language might give a typically developing child a way to communicate several months earlier than those who only use vocal communication.

As you won't be relying on vocal communication, you should encourage the most interesting and entertaining visual interaction as possible.

Since our dogs can't talk, their only forms of vocal communication are barking and whining.

«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.

The similarity in auditory processing, he adds, «helps explain why vocal communication between the two species is so successful.»

«It is surprising that vocal communication at such an early stage of development can have such persistent effects,» Duckworth says.

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

Skin - to - skin contact after cesarean will support the early onset of the first vocal communication (Velandia et al. (2010, abstract) and help bring up OT levels.

Songbirds, much like in humans, have a critical period in youth when they are best at learning vocal communication skills.

Words are the basic building blocks of human language, but they are hardly ever found in nonhuman vocal communication.

The researchers found that the offspring of young fathers exhibited impaired vocal communication, while the offspring of older fathers exhibited hyperlocomotion.

The research, which emphasises the difference between functional sub-territories in perceiving emotions through vocal communication, shows that the more complex and precise the processes related to emotions are, the more the frontal lobe and its connections with other cerebral regions are solicited.

«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.»

As Dr. Jarvis observes, «We believe that FOXP2 already had a pre-existing role in regulating vocal communication before human language evolved.»

«It adds to evidence primate vocal communication is more plastic than traditionally thought, but I'm sceptical that it calls into question the idea that these calls have a largely emotional basis,» says Brandon Wheeler of the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK.

The results showed that the FOXP2 heterozygotes have difficulty producing the complex vocal communication patterns that wildtype mice can create with ease — as measured both by syllable length and the number of unique syllables produced over time.

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.

Whining is one of many forms of canine vocal communication.

Vocal communication involves barking and sometimes growling, and signs of dominance or submission are frequently made through facial expressions and body posture.

Using research from both zoology and neuroscience, Conley has constructed a room - sized mechanical sculpture based on a frog's vocal communication system.

The most common employment for a stenographer is that of a court reporter and the scope of work is to make accurate forms of shorthand of exact vocal communications and proceedings.

We are using cutting - edge molecular techniques to identify genes that are important for vocal communication in non-human mammals such as bats.

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.

Unable to fly, nestling birds depend on their parents for both food and protection: vocal communication between parents and offspring helps young birds to determine when they should beg for food and when they should crouch in the nest to avoid a predator seeking an easy meal.

Barking is one of many forms of vocal communication for dogs.

As it turns out, prairie dogs actually have one of the most sophisticated forms of vocal communication in the natural world, really not so unlike our own.

While gesture may be the first step in language evolution, the psychologists also found evidence that the evolutionary pathway from gesture to human language included the «co-evolution of gestural and vocal communication.»

Few treatments for language impairments have been developed, White said, because scientists have only a poor understanding of the molecular basis for vocal communication.

«Every neurodevelopmental disorder you can think of — including Tourette syndrome, autism, and Rett syndrome — entails in some way a breakdown in auditory processing and vocal communication.

For Kershenbaum, wolves and dolphins show remarkable parallels with each other in social behaviour, intelligence and vocal communication — all comparisons that extend to humans.

«Different communities have different material cultures in the wild, but their vocal communication has always been thought to be more fixed,» he says.

Research interests: Primate evolution, biogeography and systematics - Strepsirhines - Molecular evolution and phylogenetics - Conservation and population genetics - Vocal communication and behavior - Mathematical modeling

Ongoing studies and analyses examine mother - infant relations, vocal communications, and botanical collections.

She got to the issue anthropogenic noise in aquatic environments by conducting her Master thesis in Norway, investigating the influence of anthropogenic noise on reproductive behavior and vocal communication of the corkwing wrasse at the Institute of Marine Research, Bergen.

The lab focuses on echolocating bats and is interested in a wide range of fundamental behaviors including long and short - range navigation, social networks and collective behavior, sensory decision making, inter-sensory integration, and vocal communication, as well as bio-sonar and bio-inspired robotics.

As for vocal communication, Bradshaw has a surprise for cat lovers — those meows are meant for you, not the other cats.

Howling is one of many forms of vocal communication used by dogs.

On the one hand, in fact, massaging a baby requires and intensifies a series of multimodal and interactive competencies (such as emotional expression, eye - contact, physical touch, vocal communication, and turn - taking) that usually characterize adult — child daily repertoires; in this sense, it represents a privileged moment to cultivate and strengthen the relationship.

That's not surprising since humans have had a million or so years to learn the intimacies of vocal communication, while written communication has been around a mere 5,000 or 6,000 years.