Sentences with phrase «vocalizations as»

The Mini is given to low, throaty vocalizations as a form of greeting and communication.

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.

I would not rely on lack of vocalizations as proof of working under threshold and I would not rely on taking treats as reliable proof either.

Some bird owners see their pets» vocalizations as beautiful music; others simply accept that it is an inevitable side effect of owning a pet bird.

Characters react with high pitched vocalizations as they get hurt and die which adds some variety to the audio but not enough to make it satisfying.

It found that the animals adjusted the frequencies of their vocalizations as they meet different threats, and made a unique call when they came across swarming bees and a different unique call when they met people who traditionally hunted them.

Not exact matches

«I wrote down in 1975, when I started the company,» he explained, casting his extraordinary foresight as nothing more than a simple vocalization of what should have been obvious to everyone, «that there were two focuses of technology in terms of building computers.

I'm starting to believe the anti-kid vocalizations in our culture «make sense» considering as this article alludes to, the more you see segregation in your culture the more confirmation bias this affords that kids SHOULD or HAVE to be segregated.

-- Between 6 and 9 months a baby continues to experiment with vocalization and also imitates high and low pitches as the adult sings high and low.

A child who has hearing loss may have trouble understanding speech around her as well as her own vocalizations.

Again in OT release studies, maternal vocalizations were nearly as important as touch in the regulation of stress.

My husband was on the phone with our midwife and as she listened to my birthing vocalizations she prepared my husband for what was coming next: baby.

Interestingly, but not really surprising, when a human infants inherent need for contact and proximity (reassurance through touch, parent directed vocalizations, emotional support) are met by parents early in their lives rather than becoming «dependent» as is always suggested in the popular press the reverse is actually true: that is, early dependence leads to early independence and self sufficiency and, perhaps even, enhanced self — confidence.

As Dr. Andy explained it, 90 % of their brain is still asleep; it's only the primary motor cortex (the part of the brain that controls movement and vocalization) that's awake.

Step 5: As you experiment with different vocalizations, watch for your baby's reaction to your voice.

My vocalizations manifested this inner struggle, as well as the physical sensations going on in my body.

As your baby listens to your vocalizations, she learns the sounds and rhythms of our language.

So as the infant matures past three months in vocalization, the sound reflexes become replaced with more like elaborate babbling.

It is proven that The Gambia under Jammeh has been proved beyond reasonable doubts to have failed in executing its primary responsibility for protecting the populace from crimes - against - humanity as well as vocalization and incitement of ethnic tensions.

To be classified as communicative, a gesture had to include eye contact with the conversational partner, be accompanied by vocalization (non-speech sounds) or include a visible behavioral effort to elicit a response.

The team's analyses, which covered 90 species, revealed that brain size was best predicted by a score based on various social behaviors such as cooperation with other species, group hunting and complex vocalizations.

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

Based on the vocalizations, they estimated there were as many as 1.5 million fish in a 17 - mile (27 - kilometer) stretch of river channel during one peak spawning day.

All of this is associated with a series of vocalizations — as he flies, he gives a single long «ceeeeeeeeee» note, and then as he jumps off a log, he goes, «ceee ceee aaak,» then ends with a sort of froggy «nerk» note.

As expected, the mice carrying the mutated gene had far fewer vocalizations, with longer gaps between «speech» compared with their unmodified littermates — Gnptab mutant mice had about 80 vocalizations compared with 190 in the nonmutant mice.

Researchers discovered that we pay more attention when an emotion (such as happiness, sadness or anger) is expressed through vocalizations than we do when the same emotion is expressed in speech.

More importantly, the researchers have also discovered that we pay more attention when an emotion (such as happiness, sadness or anger) is expressed through vocalizations than we do when the same emotion is expressed in speech.

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.

The researchers point out that the popularity of TNR in the U.S. has been in part due to a goal of maximizing feral cats» quality of life (e.g. extended life span, vaccinations, assessment for infectious disease) and reducing undesirable behaviors such as aggression and vocalization while still eliminating colonies over time.

Bioacoustics expert Bill Evans of Texas A&M University in Galveston calls the discovery «interesting,» as it means that dolphins are among the few types of vertebrates — the others being birds and humans — capable of learning new vocalizations throughout their lives.

Despite negligible nuances in the birds» plumage color, and limited differentiation in their vocalizations, WCS and NUS ornithologists identified a surprising genetic divergence dating back as far as the early Pleistocene.

A tic is generally defined as a semi-voluntary movement or vocalization with no specific purpose.

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.

«Finches offer researchers a new tool with which to study Huntington's disease: Like humans, songbirds learn their vocalizations, suggesting they could be useful as models for certain disorders.»

Like humans, songbirds such as zebra finches (above) can learn vocalizations, and this similarity suggests they could serve as models for research on Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders that affect speech and vocalization.

The acoustic features of these vocalizations, such as their duration, pitch and pulse pattern, vary across social groups.

After applying it to the various species» calls, the researchers report this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B that they found no evidence that animals» vocalizations are restricted as the model would suggest.

In previous work, Anderson's team demonstrated that mice engineered with extra copies of the UBE3A gene show impaired sociability, as well as heightened repetitive self - grooming and reduced vocalizations with other mice.

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.

In animals, for example, distinct neural circuits control different functions, such as vocalization and vision.

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.

A seemingly threatening situation presents itself; you go into fight - or - flight mode; the threat proves spurious; you alert your (genetically close - knit) social group to the absence of actual danger by emitting a stereotyped vocalization — one that is amplified as it passes contagiously from member to member.

The mice also displayed features consistent with autism spectrum disorder, such as social interaction abnormalities, repetitive behaviors, and abnormal «squeaks» or vocalizations.

Ultrasonic vocalization among rats serves different purposes, such as alerting fellow rats without tipping off predators.

In 30 trials, the scientists presented Wikie with recordings of unfamiliar sounds and words spoken by trainers, which the whale was then instructed to copy as in - air vocalizations (rather than underwater).

In the current study, however, only a subset of these vocalizations was uttered during recording sessions, consisting of contact and greeting calls as well as chatter sounds.

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

We also found strong positive correlations between beak opening and amplitude as well as changes in tongue height and amplitude in several types of vocalization.

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.

The mandibular symphysis also shows strong markings for the digastric muscle (important for swallowing and vocalization), which some people have interpreted as proof of language by this time.