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Determining Ultrasonic Vocalization Preferences in Mice using a Two-choice Playback Test
Published on: September 3, 2015
[Acoustic analysis of signals in mammals]
1Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow, 117071 Russia.
Abstract:
Spectral-prosodic characteristics of signals were analyzed synchronously with the main frequency for 32 mammals and one reptile using a KAZ-01 complex sound analyzer. The method of phoneme analysis was adapted for analysis of the signals. The main features of signaling in mammals have been revealed, which differed from those in birds and humans: low frequency range, low fundamental frequency, small number of local maxima, small frequency distance between them, and a significant amount of local maxima with zero energy.
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