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Rodent ultrasonic vocal interaction resolved with millimeter precision using hybrid beamforming.
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- The mouse posterior insular cortex encodes expressive and receptive aspects of courtship vocalizations.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Mountable miniature microphones to identify and assign mouse ultrasonic vocalizations.Cell reports methods · 2025Article
- Pre- and post-copulatory traits are affected by experimental inbreeding, but they are not correlated.BMC biology · 2025Article
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- Rates of female mouse ultrasonic vocalizations are low and are not modulated by estrous state during interactions with muted males.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A Cortical Site that Encodes Vocal Expression and Reception.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Vocal Call Locator Benchmark (VCL) for localizing rodent vocalizations from multi-channel audio.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- ARBUR, a machine learning-based analysis system for relating behaviors and ultrasonic vocalizations of rats.iScience · 2024Article
- Deep learning algorithms reveal increased social activity in rats at the onset of the dark phase of the light/dark cycle.PloS one · 2024Article
- Solitude and serotonin: juvenile isolation alters the covariation between social behavior and cFos expression by serotonergic neurons.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Rodent ultrasonic vocal interaction resolved with millimeter precision using hybrid beamforming.eLife · 2023Article
- Listening to your partner: serotonin increases male responsiveness to female vocal signals in mice.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) fulfill an important role in communication and navigation in many species. Because of their social and affective significance, rodent USVs are increasingly used as a behavioral measure in neurodevelopmental and neurolinguistic research. Reliably attributing USVs to their emitter during close interactions has emerged as a difficult, key challenge. If addressed, all subsequent analyses gain substantial confidence. We present a hybrid ultrasonic tracking system, Hybrid Vocalization Localizer (HyVL), that synergistically integrates a high-resolution acoustic camera with high-quality ultrasonic microphones. HyVL is the first to achieve millimeter precision (~3.4-4.8 mm, 91% assigned) in localizing USVs, ~3× better than other systems, approaching the physical limits (mouse snout ~10 mm). We analyze mouse courtship interactions and demonstrate that males and females vocalize in starkly different relative spatial positions, and that the fraction of female vocalizations has likely been overestimated previously due to imprecise localization. Further, we find that when two male mice interact with one female, one of the males takes a dominant role in the interaction both in terms of the vocalization rate and the location relative to the female. HyVL substantially improves the precision with which social communication between rodents can be studied. It is also affordable, open-source, easy to set up, can be integrated with existing setups, and reduces the required number of experiments and animals.
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