Male discrimination of receptive and unreceptive female calls by temporal features

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 2836-2842

  Elliott, Taffeta M ^a   Kelley, Darcy B ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Anura; Auditory discrimination; Categorical perception; Frog; Vocal communication; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FROG; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; RANIDAE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANURA; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 34548651144     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.003988     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Braaten, R. F. and Hulse, S. H. (1993). Perceptual organization of auditory temporal patterns in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Percept. Psychophys. 54, 567-578.
2. Elliott, T. M. (2007). The neural basis of click rate coding in the auditory system. Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. New York, Columbia University. Doctor of Philosophy: 145.
3. Gerhardt, H. C. (1978). Discrimination of intermediate sounds in a synthetic call continuum by female green tree frogs. Science 199, 1089-1091.
4. Gleason, J. B. and Ratner, N. B. (1998). Psycholinguistics. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace.
5. Liberman, A. M., Harris, K. S., Hoffman, H. S. and Griffith, B. C. (1957). The discrimination of speech sounds within and across phoneme boundaries. J. Exp. Psychol. 54, 358-368.
6. Liberman, A. M., Harris, K. S., Kinney, J. A. and Lane, H. (1961). The discrimination of relative onset-time of the components of certain speech and nonspeech patterns. J. Exp. Psychol. 61, 379-388.
7. Nelson, D. A. and Marler, P. (1989). Categorical perception of a natural stimulus continuum: birdsong. Science 244, 976-978.
8. Palmer, C. and Krumhansl, C. L. (1990). Mental representations for musical meter. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 16, 728-741.
9. Tobias, M. L. and Kelley, D. B. (1987). Vocalizations by a sexually dimorphic isolated larynx: peripheral constraints on behavioral expression. J. Neurosci. 7, 3191-3197.
10. Tobias, M. L., Viswanathan, S. S. and Kelley, D. B. (1998). Rapping, a female receptive call, initiates male-female duets in the South African clawed frog. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 1870-1875.
11. Tobias, M. L., Barnard, C., O'Hagan, R., Horng, S. H., Rand, M. and Kelley, D. B. (2004). Vocal communication between male Xenopus laevis. Anim. Behav. 67, 353-365.
12. Vignal, C. and Kelley, D. B. (2007). Significance of temporal and spectral acoustic cues for sexual recognition in Xenopus laevis. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 274, 479-488.
13. Wetzel, D. M. and Kelley, D. B. (1983). Androgen and gonadotropin effects on male mate calls in South African clawed frogs, Xenopus laevis. Horm. Behav. 17, 388-404.
14. Wyttenbach, R. A., May, M. L. and Hoy, R. R. (1996). Categorical perception of sound frequency by crickets. Science 273, 1542-1544.