Chemosensation via olfaction is a critical process underlying social interactions in many
different species. Past studies of olfaction in mammals often have focused on its …

Recognizing conspecifics is vital for differentiating mates, offspring, and social threats.
Individual recognition is often reliant upon chemical or visual cues but can also be facilitated …

Some aspects of the neural mechanisms underlying mouse ultrasonic vocalisations (USVs)
are a useful model for the neurobiology of human speech and speech-related disorders …

Vocal animals produce multiple categories of calls with high between-and within-subject
variability, over which listeners must generalize to accomplish call categorization. The …

The vibrissa system of mice and other rodents enables active sensing via whisker
movements and is traditionally considered a purely tactile system. Here, we ask whether …

Courtship vocalizations can influence mate choice and reproductive success and thus
evolve through sexual selection. House mice, Mus musculus, are intensively studied; …

Cricket song recognition is thought to evolve through modifications of a shared neural
network. However, the species Anurogryllus muticus has an unusual recognition pattern that …

Highlights•We examine how energy balance/social context affect display effort in singing
mice.•We injected mice with leptin or saline before or after exposure to conspecific …

Rhythm is an important component of human language and music production. Rhythms
such as isochrony (intervals spaced equally in time) are also present in vocalizations of …

Humans and animals maintain accurate discrimination between communication sounds in
the presence of loud sources of background noise. In previous studies performed in …