Vocal-Tract Resonances as Indexical Cues in Rhesus Monkeys

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 425-430

  Ghazanfar, Asif A ^a   Turesson, Hjalmar K ^a   Maier, Joost X ^a   van Dinther, Ralph ^b   Patterson, Roy D ^b   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY SIZE; HISTOLOGY; MACACA; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CUES; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCAL CORDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 33847268177     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.029     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Lieberman P., and Blumstein S.E. Speech Physiology, Speech Perception, and Acoustic Phonetics (1988), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
2. Fitch W.T., and Hauser M.D. Vocal production in nonhuman-primates: Acoustics, physiology, and functional constraints on honest advertisement. Am. J. Primatol. 37 (1995) 191-219
3. Fitch W.T. Vocal tract length and formant frequency dispersion correlate with body size in rhesus macaques. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102 (1997) 1213-1222
4. Owren M.J., Seyfarth R.M., and Cheney D.L. The acoustic features of vowel-like grunt calls in chacma baboons (Papio cyncephalus ursinus): Implications for production processes and functions. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101 (1997) 2951-2963
5. Rendall D., Owren M.J., and Rodman P.S. The role of vocal tract filtering in identity cueing in rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) vocalizations. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103 (1998) 602-614
6. Pfefferle D., and Fischer J. Sounds and size: Identification of acoustic variables that reflect body size in hamadryas baboons, Papio hamadryas. Anim. Behav. 72 (2006) 43-51
7. Rendall D. Acoustic correlates of caller identity and affect intensity in the vowel-like grunt vocalizations of baboons. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113 (2003) 3390-3402
8. Riede T., and Zuberbuhler K. The relationship between acoustic structure and semantic information in Diana monkey alarm vocalization. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114 (2003) 1132-1142
9. Owren M.J. Acoustic classification of alarm calls by vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) and humans (Homo sapiens). 1. Natural Calls. J. Comp. Psychol. 104 (1990) 20-28
10. Owren M.J. Acoustic classification of alarm calls by vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) and humans (Homo sapiens). 2. Synthetic calls. J. Comp. Psychol. 104 (1990) 29-40
11. Ghazanfar A.A., and Logothetis N.K. Facial expressions linked to monkey calls. Nature 423 (2003) 937-938
12. Maier J.X., Neuhoff J.G., Logothetis N.K., and Ghazanfar A.A. Multisensory integration of looming signals by Rhesus monkeys. Neuron 43 (2004) 177-181
13. Smith D.R.R., and Patterson R.D. The interaction of glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length in judgement of speaker size, sex and age. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118 (2005) 3177-3186
14. Mollis M.R. Evaluating models of vowel perception. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118 (2005) 1062-1071
15. Lieberman P., Laitman J.T., Reidenberg J.S., and Gannon P.J. The anatomy, physiology, acoustics and perception of speech: Essential elements in analysis of the evolution of human speech. J. Hum. Evol. 23 (1992) 447-467
16. Bachorowski J.A., and Owren M.J. Acoustic correlates of talker sex and individual talker identity are present in a short vowel segment produced in running speech. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106 (1999) 1054-1063
17. Rendall D., Kollias S., Ney C., and Lloyd P. Pitch (F-0) and formant profiles of human vowels and vowel-like baboon grunts: The role of vocalizer body size and voice-acoustic allometry. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117 (2005) 944-955
18. Fitch W.T. Vocal Tract Length Perception and the Evolution of Language (1994), Brown University, Providence, RI
19. Feinberg D.R., Jones B.C., Little A.C., Burt D.M., and Perrett D.I. Manipulations of fundamental and formant frequencies influence the attractiveness of human male voices. Anim. Behav. 69 (2005) 561-568
20. Ives D., Smith D.R., and Patterson R.D. Discrimination of speaker size from syllable phrases. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118 (2005) 3816-3822
21. Smith D.R.R., Patterson R.D., Turner R., Kawahara H., and Irino T. The processing and perception of size information in speech sounds. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117 (2005) 305-318
22. Bruckert L., Lienard J.S., Lacroix A., Kreutzer M., and Leboucher G. Women use voice parameters to assess men's characteristics. Proc. Biol. Sci. 273 (2006) 83-89
23. Collins S.A., and Missing C. Vocal and visual attractiveness are related in women. Anim. Behav. 65 (2003) 997-1004
24. Fitch W.T., and Giedd J. Morphology and development of the human vocal tract: A study using magnetic resonance imaging. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106 (1999) 1511-1522
25. Hauser M.D., Evans C.S., and Marler P. The Role of Articulation in the Production of Rhesus-Monkey, Macaca Mulatta, Vocalizations. Anim. Behav. 45 (1993) 423-433
26. Fitch W.T. Primate vocal production and its implications for auditory research. In: Ghazanfar A.A. (Ed). Primate Audition: Ethology and Neurobiology (2003), CRC Press, Boca Raton 87-108
27. Fitch W.T., and Kelley J.P. Perception of vocal tract resonances by whooping cranes, Grus americana. Ethology 106 (2000) 559-574
28. Reby D., McComb K., Cargnelutti B., Darwin C., Fitch W.T., and Clutton-Brock T. Red deer stags use formants as assessment cues during intrasexual agonistic interactions. Proc. Biol. Sci. 272 (2005) 941-947
29. Fitch W.T., and Fritz J.B. Rhesus monkeys spontaneously perceive formants in conspecific vocalizations. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120 (2006) 2132-2141
30. Kawahara H., Masuda-Kasuse I., and de Cheveigne A. Restructuring speech representations using pitch-adaptive time-frequency smoothing and instantaneous-frequency-based F0 extraction: A possible role of repetitive structure in sounds. Speech Commun. 27 (1999) 187-207
31. Kuhl P.K., and Meltzoff A.N. The intermodal representation of speech in infants. Infant Behav. Dev. 7 (1984) 361-381
32. Patterson M.L., and Werker J.F. Matching phonetic information in lips and voice is robust in 4.5-month-old infants. Infant Behav. Dev. 22 (1999) 237-247
33. Heinz R.D., and Brady J.V. The acquisition of vowel discriminations by nonhuman primates. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 84 (1988) 186-194
34. Sommers M.S., Moody D.B., Prosen C.A., and Stebbins W.C. Formant frequency discrimination by Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91 (1992) 3499-3510
35. Le Prell C.G., Niemiec A.J., and Moody D.B. Macaque thresholds for detecting increases in intensity: Effects of formant structure. Hear. Res. 162 (2001) 29-42
36. Sinnott J.M. Detection and discrimination of synthetic English vowels by Old-World monkeys (Cercopithecus, Macaca) and humans. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 86 (1989) 557-565
37. Reby D., and McComb K. Anatomical constraints generate honesty: Acoustic cues to age and weight in the roars of red deer stags. Anim. Behav. 65 (2003) 519-530
38. Fitch W.T., and Reby D. The descended larynx is not uniquely human. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sci. 268 (2001) 1669-1675
39. Gonzalez J. Formant frequencies and body size of speaker: A weak relationship in adult humans. J. Phonetics 32 (2004) 277-287
40. Fitch W.T. The evolution of speech: A comparative review. Trends Cogn. Sci. 4 (2000) 258-267
41. Ghazanfar A.A., and Hauser M.D. The neuroethology of primate vocal communication: Substrates for the evolution of speech. Trends Cogn. Sci. 3 (1999) 377-384
42. Ghazanfar A.A., Maier J.X., Hoffman K.L., and Logothetis N.K. Multisensory integration of dynamic faces and voices in rhesus monkey auditory cortex. J. Neurosci. 25 (2005) 5004-5012
43. von Kriegstein K., and Giraud A.-L. Implicit multisensory associations influence voice recognition. PLoS Biol. 4 (2006) 1809-1820
44. Von Kriegstein K., Warren J.D., Ives T., Patterson R.D., and Griffiths T.D. Processing the acoustic effect of size in speech sounds. Neuroimage 32 (2006) 368-375