Rodents emit ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) to communicate the presence of positive or
negative emotional states and to coordinate social interactions. On this basis, USVs are …

Mice and rats emit ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs), which may express their arousal and
emotional states, to communicate with each other. There is continued scientific effort to …

Vocalization is an ancient vertebrate trait essential to many forms of communication, ranging
from courtship calls to free verse. Vocalizations may be entirely innate and evoked by sexual …

INTRODUCTION Echolocation is a form of orientation behavior in which some animals can
assess environments in which vision is ineffective. Echolocating mammals have been …

Abstract BONAUTO, SM, OM Greuel, and JA Honeycutt. Playback of rat 22-kHz ultrasonic
vocalizations as a translational assay of negative affective states: An analysis of evoked …

Phonation critically depends on precise controls of laryngeal muscles in coordination with
ongoing respiration. However, the neural mechanisms governing these processes remain …

House mice, like many tetrapods, produce multielement calls consisting of individual
vocalizations repeated in rhythmic series. In this study, we examine the multielement …

Rodents' ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) provide useful information for assessing their
social behaviors. Despite previous efforts in classifying subcategories of time-frequency …

Highlights•Rodents exhibit extreme variation in acoustic signal structure.•Intraspecific
acoustic variation is often overlooked.•Acoustic variation is associated with ontogenic, social …

Highlights•Genetic identification of brainstem neurons that gate mouse USVs.•Attractor
networks may convert auditory stimuli into vocal action.•The motor cortex plays a role in …