Sound symbolism refers to an association between phonemes and stimuli containing
particular perceptual and/or semantic elements (eg, objects of a certain size or shape) …

Emotions play a crucial role in an animal's life because they facilitate responses to external
or internal events of significance for the organism. In social species, one of the main …

Contemporary researchers regard emotional states as multifaceted, comprising
physiological, behavioural, cognitive and subjective components. Subjective, conscious …

During the approximately 18–32 thousand years of domestication [1], dogs and humans
have shared a similar social environment [2]. Dog and human vocalizations are thus familiar …

The field of animal vocal communication has benefited greatly from improved understanding
of vocal production mechanisms and specifically from the generalization of the source–filter …

The concept of information plays a central role in studies of animal communication. Animals'
responses to the calls of different individuals, to food calls, alarm calls, and to signals that …

While vocal tract resonances or formants are key acoustic parameters that define differences
between phonemes in human speech, little is known about their function in animal …

Köhler (1929) a rendu célèbre un biais dans la façon d'associer des mots dépourvus de
sens à des nouvelles formes d'objet, démontrant la présence possible d'attentes naïves à …

Key voice features—fundamental frequency (F 0) and formant frequencies—can vary
extensively between individuals. Much of the variation can be traced to differences in the …

Alarm calling is a widespread antipredator behaviour. Although the function and evolution of
alarm call behaviour have long been studied in detail, only in the last decade has there …