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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Perceptual specializations for processing species-specific vocalizations in the common marmoset (

Michael S Osmanski, Xiaoqin Wang

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Census and genetic analysis of the United States marmoset population.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  6. A model of marmoset monkey vocal turn-taking.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024
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  9. The neurobiology of vocal communication in marmosets.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2023
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  10. Perceptual specializations for processing species-specific vocalizations in the common marmoset (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael S OsmanskiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.ORCID 0000-0003-3458-9215
Xiaoqin WangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.ORCID 0000-0002-3999-0772
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

NEURAL BASIS OF COMMUNICATION SOUND PERCEPTIONR01DC003180 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, XIAOQIN · 1997 to 2024
$12.0M
Auditory-Vocal Interaction Mechanisms in PrimatesR01DC005808 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, XIAOQIN · 2003 to 2022
$8.0M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC003180NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC005808
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How humans and animals segregate sensory information into discrete, behaviorally meaningful categories is one of the hallmark questions in neuroscience. Much of the research around this topic in the auditory system has centered around human speech perception, in which categorical processes result in an enhanced sensitivity for acoustically meaningful differences and a reduced sensitivity for nonmeaningful distinctions. Much less is known about whether nonhuman primates process their species-specific vocalizations in a similar manner. We address this question in the common marmoset, a small arboreal New World primate with a rich vocal repertoire produced across a range of behavioral contexts. We first show that marmosets perceptually categorize their vocalizations in ways that correspond to previously defined call types for this species. Next, we show that marmosets are differentially sensitive to changes in particular acoustic features of their most common call types and that these sensitivity differences are matched to the population statistics of their vocalizations in ways that likely maximize category formation. Finally, we show that marmosets are less sensitive to changes in these acoustic features when within the natural range of variability of their calls, which possibly reflects perceptual specializations which maintain existing call categories. These findings suggest specializations for categorical vocal perception in a New World primate species and pave the way for future studies examining their underlying neural mechanisms.

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CallithrixSpeech PerceptionAcousticsAnimalsHumansSpecies SpecificityVocalization, Animalcategoricalmarmosetperceptionprimatevocalization

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PMID37276391
PMCPMC10268253
OpenAlexW4379469565

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