Sentences with phrase «with vocalization»

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.

Training can help with vocalization issues though you may need the help of a dog trainer when vocalization is a major problem.

Such changes seem to be associated with vocalization.

-- 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.

You might see her smile or even try to respond to you with some vocalizations of her own!

Some cats purr because they are content, while others might be sending a less than pleasant message with their vocalizations.

The kittens can exercise their vocal cords and meow from birth, but they usually begin experimenting with vocalizations once they start to toddle around and explore their world.

They are more prudent with their vocalizations and, for some reason, they don't have the loud calling instinct that many other birds possess.

Aggressive displays usually start with vocalizations, though cats sometimes initially broadcast their agitation through spraying and other marking behaviors.

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However, Sterck said, the study shows no more proof of tactical deception than her own work with long - tailed macaques, and the gelada's apparent tailoring of vocalizations could just be a learned behavior.

First of all is the biological organism with its big brain, its upright posture, its hand and opposed thumb, its vocal organs making possible enormous variety in vocalization so that language and other symbols can develop to expand indefinitely the range of meaning, entering into human life.

It has been this vocalization of the audiences which has carried a power with local television stations disproportionate to the actual size of the audiences.

If we thought of the Gospels in acoustic, not literary, terms, we could say that they are compositions meant to be sung with the freest vocalizations.

But, there is a ton of cool facts about chicken including the fact that mother hens show empathy for their chicks and that the birds also have complex communication systems with more than 30 different vocalizations.

Hens are intelligent, highly social animals with a communication system that includes dozens of different vocalizations.

But by the end of the third month your baby will engage you with facial expressions, vocalizations, and gestures.

Interwoven in these actions are inflected vocalizations, not just with mother but with father.

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.

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.

Vocalization is, for many women, one of the most instinctual ways to cope with the intensity of labor.

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

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

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

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.

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.

It lays out a possible route from general calls between individuals keeping in touch when out of sight, to specific, more complex vocalizations with infants, and eventually into lullabies.

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.

More demands for attention from the infant through crying might be answered with more complex vocalizations from the caregiver.

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.

«Our findings are consistent with studies of non-human primates which suggest that vocalizations that are specific to a species are treated preferentially by the neural system over other sounds.»

But by 6 months, the link has narrowed, with only human vocalizations supporting categorization.

«We were surprised by how reliably the marmoset monkeys exchanged their vocalizations in a cooperative manner, particularly since in most cases they were doing so with individuals that they were not pair - bonded with,» says Asif Ghazanfar of Princeton University.

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

With the help of Pawel Kowalski in SFU's Science Technical Center, they have already built an electronic gadget that incorporates a specially designed algorithm that can randomly and intermittently replicate rat pups» vocalizations.

«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.»

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.

By comparing old recordings of vocalization patterns from the cross-socialized subjects with recordings of killer whales and bottlenose dolphins housed in same - species groups, Bowles and her team were able to evaluate the degree to which killer whales learned vocalization patterns from their cross-species social partners.

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.

These vocalizations are evoked by the presence of a predator and so are closely linked in time with a particular stimulus.»

While the researchers found no clear geographical pattern to the whales» markings and vocalizations, they did find a genetic pattern: The whales» mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is inherited only from the mother, indicated that groups with similar calls and markings were related.

«The finding is exciting,» says Bottjer, «because it provides a rare example of changes in neural activity that correspond with behavioral attempts to achieve a mental goal; in this case, to produce vocalizations that mimic the memory of a sound.

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.

Around one in five children with Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary movements and vocalizations, met criteria for autism in a study headed by UC San Francisco.

Geckos are unique among lizards in their vocalizations, making chirping sounds in social interactions with other geckos.

Black said it's not possible to know yet whether the extra gray matter is transmitting information that somehow contributes to tics or whether reduced amounts of white matter elsewhere in the brains of kids with Tourette's may somehow influence the movements and vocalizations that characterize the disorder.

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.

Again, only lemurs that shared a close grooming relationship with the individual emitting the call responded, even if the lemur making the vocalization was not nearby.

«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.

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.