ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2016
Rats Synchronize Locomotion with Ultrasonic Vocalizations at the Subsecond Time Scale.
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- Sex differences in 50 kHz call subtypes emitted during tickling-induced playful behaviour in rats.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Rates of ultrasonic vocalizations are more strongly related than acoustic features to non-vocal behaviors in mouse pups.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Playback of Alarm and Appetitive Calls Differentially Impacts Vocal, Heart-Rate, and Motor Response in Rats.iScience · 2020Article
- Effects of nicotine, nornicotine and cotinine, alone or in combination, on locomotor activity and ultrasonic vocalization emission in adult rats.Psychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Serotonin transporter deficiency alters socioemotional ultrasonic communication in rats.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Vocal and locomotor coordination develops in association with the autonomic nervous system.eLife · 2019Article
- The temporal organization of mouse ultrasonic vocalizations.PloS one · 2018Article
- Laryngeal airway reconstruction indicates that rodent ultrasonic vocalizations are produced by an edge-tone mechanism.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
- Understanding pup affective state through ethologically significant ultrasonic vocalization frequency.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Specific 50-kHz vocalizations are tightly linked to particular types of behavior in juvenile rats anticipating play.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
Acoustic signals have the potential for transmitting information fast across distances. Rats emit ultrasonic vocalizations of two distinct classes: "22-kHz" or "alarm" calls and "50-kHz" calls. The latter comprises brief sounds in the 30-80-kHz range, whose ethological role is not fully understood. We recorded ultrasonic vocalizations from pairs of rats freely behaving in neighboring but separated arenas. 50-kHz vocalizations in this condition were tightly linked to the locomotion of the emitter at the subsecond time scale, their rate sharply increasing and decreasing prior to the onset and offset of movement respectively. This locomotion-linked vocalization behavior showed a clear "audience effect," as rats recorded alone displayed lower vocal production than rats in social settings for equivalent speeds of locomotion. Furthermore, calls from different categories across the 50 and 22-kHz families displayed markedly different correlations with locomotor activity. Our results show that rat vocalizations in the high ultrasonic range are social signals carrying spatial information about the emitter and highlight the possibility that they may play a role in the social coordination of spatial behaviors.
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