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Learnt formant modulation via upper vocal tract movements in a marine mammal.

Teresa Raimondi, Francesca D'Orazio, Denise Di Martino, Melina Witt, Flavia Grenga, Peter Cook, Livio Favaro, Cristina Pilenga, Andrea Ravignani

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Article in Discover animals, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Teresa RaimondiDepartment of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, Rome, 00185 Italy.
Francesca D'OrazioDepartment of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, Rome, 00185 Italy.
Denise Di MartinoDepartment of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, Rome, 00185 Italy.
Melina WittDepartment of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, Rome, 00185 Italy.
Flavia GrengaDepartment of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, Rome, 00185 Italy.
Peter CookPsychology Department, Division of Social Sciences, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL USA.
Livio FavaroDepartment of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Accademia Albertina 13,, Torino, 10123 Italy.
Cristina PilengaZoomarine Italia, Torvaianica-Pomezia, Rome, 00071 Italy.
Andrea RavignaniDepartment of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, Rome, 00185 Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Formants are resonance frequencies shaped by the upper vocal tract. Across vertebrates, they have a key role in acoustic communication. Humans show fine-grained control of formant modulation; little is known about such control in other species. We trained a male harbor seal ( Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s44338-025-00145-z.

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PMCPMC12769615

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