Context-specific calls signal infants' needs in a strepsirrhine primate, the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 708-718

  Scheumann, Marina ^a,b   Zimmermann, Elke ^a,b   Deichsel, Guntram ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context specificity; Emotion; Microcebus murinus; Mother infant communication; Primate; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; PROSIMIAN; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHEIROGALEIDAE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VIDEO RECORDING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WEANING;

MICROCEBUS MURINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 34547170872     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20234     Document Type: Article

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