Emotions play a crucial role in an animal's life because they facilitate responses to external
or internal events of significance for the organism. In social species, one of the main …

Is the singing voice processed distinctively in the human brain? In this Perspective, we
discuss what might distinguish song processing from speech processing in light of recent …

Emotions are important because they enable the selection of appropriate behavioural
decisions in response to external or internal events. Techniques for understanding and …

Source–filter theory posits that an individual's size and vocal tract length are reflected in the
parameters of their calls. In species that mate assortatively, this could result in vocal …

Studying vocal correlates of emotions is important to provide a better understanding of the
evolution of emotion expression through cross-species comparisons. Emotions are …

Recent studies find increasing evidence for vocal accommodation in nonhuman primates,
indicating that this form of vocal learning is more prevalent than previously thought …

Cattle mother-offspring contact calls encode individual-identity information; however, it is
unknown whether cattle are able to maintain individuality when vocalising to familiar …

Cattle vocalisations have been proposed as potential indicators of animal welfare. However,
very few studies have investigated the acoustic structure and information encoded in these …

Vocal plasticity is the ability of an individual to modify its vocalizations according to its
environment. Humans benefit from an extreme form of vocal plasticity, allowing us to …

In little over two decades, researchers have moved from a situation in which most studies of
terrestrial mammal vocal signals focused on conspicuous characteristics, such as their rate …