Sentences with phrase «vocal communication in»

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.

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

«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.»

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

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

One of the reasons why Kos / Gab didn't work was the communication issues, there wasn't a vocal leader between them, Kos is actually quite quiet when it comes to talking between the team in games from what I've witnessed.

Dennis Poust is the communications director for the New York State Catholic Conference — a group that has led a vocal opposition to marriage equality in this state.

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.»

Rami Tzabar and Angela Saini of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) won the Gold Award for radio reporting by exploring how animal models of vocal communication may be useful in understanding how human language might have evolved.

«We are currently exploring how very early life experiences in marmosets — including those in the womb and through to parent - infant vocal interactions — can illuminate what goes awry in human communication disorders,» Ghazanfar says.

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

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

But now new research published in Nature Communications reveals that humans and birds use the exact same physical mechanism to make their vocal cords move and thus produce sound.

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

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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

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

«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.

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

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.

Because of the time delay in transmitting emails, it does not involve real - time communication complete with body language, vocal tone and eye contact, but it does involve plenty of real - life feelings.

They found speech communication significantly more difficult, and they experienced [vocal strain problems] more often than the teachers in the enclosed classrooms, due to having to constantly raise their voice above a comfortable level to be heard.

Seeing with ears: Sightless humans» perception of dog bark provides a test for structural rules in vocal communication.

This is where the understanding of climate modeling uncertainty is lost in the scientific communications to the public by the politicians and vocal advocates that drive climate change discussions.

These images, which were called internal working models that formed mainly through vocal and facial interactions with the nurturer, can affect not only the way in which people think, feel, and behave in close relationships but also their emotional information processing (Pietromonaco and Barrett, 2000), especially the processing of facial expressions, which was considered to be an essential medium of communication in early childhood interactions (Bowlby, 1973).

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.