Sentences with phrase «vocalizations on»

The study, which is the first to examine the effects of infant vocalizations on adult neural activity during a cognitive task, will be published in the journal PLOS ONE.

Rather than following any preconceived plan for stimulating his sexual partner, the male will be infinitely more effective if he encourages vocalization on her part.

Your daughters are beautiful and didn't need any help from extra vocalization on your part!

The trauma to Euro's jaw is causing right sided facial pain, as evidenced by his vocalization on palpation, and at attempted opening of his mouth.

Nadine Gourkow, Sara C. Hamon, Clive J.C. Phillips, Effect of gentle stroking and vocalization on behaviour, mucosal immunity and upper respiratory disease in anxious shelter cats, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Available online 20 June 2014, ISSN 0167 - 5877, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2014.06.005.

• Difficulty getting up and down from a lying position • Reluctance to walk, run, climb, and descend stairs,; and to jump or play • Frequent sitting during long walks • «Bunny hopping» • Reluctance to extend rear legs • Inability to stretch • Shifting weight • Vocalization on handling

You can hear some pretty decent recordings of whale vocalization on Mark McDonald's Whale Acoustics site.

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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.

«Executive powers in the nursery: New study explores the effect baby vocalizations have on adult cognition.»

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

Among the many terrific baby monitoring products are even waterproof monitors that can hang in the shower and give you up - to - the - minute feedback on your baby's vocalizations.

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.

A team of researchers set up 16 underwater microphones to eavesdrop on narwhal click vocalizations at 11 ice pack sites in Greenland's Baffin Bay in 2013.

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.

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.

They focused on three basic emotions: anger, sadness and happiness and tested 24 participants by playing a random mix of vocalizations and nonsense speech, e.g..

«Executive powers in the nursery: New study explores the effect baby vocalizations have on adult cognition.»

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.

Training for parents and caregivers: Parents from low - income families could receive training on how to interact positively and reliably with their children to help them increase their vocabularies, imitate more conversations, and produce more vocalizations.

«Additionally, a lot of this work focuses on song, but we were interested in how noise might affect responses to an anti-predator vocalization.

To study the effects of intense hunting of sperm whales in the Pacific Ocean, Whitehead and his wife, marine biologist Linda Weilgart, collected data on the whales» vocalizations and tail scars, which may indicate how well an animal fends off predators.

This finding corroborates a 2010 global genetic study of killer whales1 and what many marine scientists suspected, based on years of studying wild orcas by tracking their movements and comparing their vocalizations, preferred prey, and social structure.

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.

Based on sketchy fossil evidence, some anthropologists argue that Neanderthals could make limited vocalizations but that they lacked the full range of modern humans; in particular, they were probably limited in the vowel sounds they could produce.

This year molecular biologist Wolfgang Enard of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, explored that possibility with an extraordinary experiment: He inserted the human version of FOXP2 into mice and studied the effects on the creatures» brains and vocalizations.

«Their vocalization, their flight call, is how we can categorize the crossbill ecotypes in the absence if information on their bill sizes.»

«Our results indicate that when animals respond to each other's vocalizations, they are in fact also working on maintaining their social bonds,» said Kulahci, who worked with her co-authors and doctoral advisers Asif Ghazanfar, a professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and Daniel Rubenstein, the Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

And although birds and frogs, like humans, process their vocalizations mostly on one side of the brain, they don't tend to show a marked preference for one limb over the other.

Because giant pandas depend in large part on information transmitted through vocalizations for reproductive success, noise from human activities in or near forest areas could be disruptive.

U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni hailed the finding, noting that it «offers unexpected insights on the origins of spoken language and could open up new approaches to understanding vocalization disorders in humans.»

The bird's signature song can be found on MSU's Avian Vocalizations Center website.

Or do animals have the ability to change those vocalizations based on their own understanding of the social context?

Dr. Jarvis and colleagues report the results of their investigation into the effect of a genetic mutation in the Forkhead box protein # 2 (FOXP2) on the vocalization patterns of adult male mice.

In an interview with NIMBioS, Waller elaborated on the goals of the Social Predator Vocalization Project and its potential for helping coyotes and wolves live peaceably with humans.

The microphone array allowed for the identification of vocalizations produced by the target family, by comparing the relative amplitudes on the three microphones.

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.

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On rare occasions there may be a brief vocalization or cry as consciousness is lost; this is not pain although you may misinterpreted it as such.

Though people rely on words, dog talk combines vocalizations, body language and smells.

On the other hand, destructive behaviors or excessive vocalizations may be a reflection of boredom.

That makes you the best authority on what is normal and also puts you in the best position to notice any increase in your cat's vocalization patterns or habits.

Consultations with pet owners, veterinary clinics, and animal shelters on the following topics: Furniture - scratching • Fear and anxiety • Aggression • Litter - box issues • Undesirable behaviours (excessive vocalization, counter-surfing, destructive behaviours, and more) • Clicker training for cats Low - stress restraint and handling techniques • Making vet visits Fear Free • Reducing stress in shelter cats

The bottom line is that we humans need to «listen with our eyes» and not focus only on vocalizations or wagging tails that may result in a biting incident.

While many birds emit vocalizations that can be soothing and pleasant, some commonly kept bird species, the hookbills in particular, can have calls that border on ear - splitting.

Throughout her career, Dr. Gross has also taken opportunities to study and work on elephants in the wild, completing an expedition to track migration patterns in Africa as well as research on behavior and vocalizations in Nepal.

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.

Here are some videos of cats «talking» and exhibiting variations on the meow and other vocalizations.

But, she grooms herself, uses the cat box with no vocalization or increased frequency, drinks and eats normally, and jumps on the bed and wants to snuggle at night.

- Red or bloody gums, red or bloody chew toys, treats, bones, etc. - Bad breath - Crying, whining or any vocalization when they are eating, drinking or chewing on treats or toys.

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.