Handbook of Mammalian Vocalization

An Integrative Neuroscience Approach
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-08-092337-6
Verlag: Elsevier Reference Monographs
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 546 Seiten

The present proposal offers an outline of the planned major Handbook on Mammalian Vocalization, which fills a clear niche existing in the science book literature and on the market. The Handbook is designed as a broad and comprehensive, but well-balanced book, written from the neuroscience point of view in the broad sense of this term. Only a few issues will be reduced, which are extensively covered in other recent book publications. The Handbook is planned in a unique way and will not directly compete with other books on the market. This well-illustrated Handbook will pay a particular attention to systematically organized details but also to the explanatory style of the text and internal cohesiveness of the content, so the successive chapters will gradually develop a consistent story without losing the inherent complexity. Studies from many species will be included, however, rodents will dominate, as most of the brain investigations were done on these species.
The leading idea of the Handbook is that vocalizations evolved as highly adaptive specific signals, which are selectively picked up by the brain. The brain serves as a receptor and behavioural amplifier. Brain systems will be described, which allow vocal signals rapidly changing the entire state of the organism and trigger vital biological responses, usually also with accompanying emission of vocalizations. Integrative brain functions leading to vocal outcome will be described, along with the vocalization generators and motor output to larynx and other supportive motor subsystems. The last sections of the Handbook will explain bioacoustic structure of vocalizations, present understanding of information coding, and origins of the complex semiotic/ semantic content of vocalizations in social mammals.
The Handbook is thought as a major source of information for professionals from many fields, with neuroscience approach as a common denominator. The handbook is planned to provide consistent and unified understanding of all major aspects of vocalization in a monographic manner, and at the same time, to give an encyclopaedic overview of major topics associated with vocalization from molecular/ cellular level to behavior and cognitive processing. It is planned to be written in a strictly scientific way but clear enough to serve not only for specialized researchers in different fields of neuroscience but also for academic teachers of neuroscience, including behavioural neuroscience, affective neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, neuroethology, biopsychology, neurolingusitics, speech pathology, and other related fields, and also for research fellows, graduate and other advanced students, who widely need such a source publication.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Handbook of Mammalian Vocalization: An Integrative Neuroscience Approach;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Contents;6
5;About the Authors;10
6;Preface;18
7;Acknowledgments;20
8;Section 1. Introduction;22
8.1;Chapter 1.1. Vocalization as an ethotransmitter: introduction to the Handbook of Mammalian Vocalization;24
9;Section 2. Evolution of the Vocal System and Vocalization;32
9.1;Chapter 2.1. Laryngeal muscles as highly specialized organs in airway protection, respiration and phonation;34
9.2;Chapter 2.2. Evolution of the communication brain in control of mammalian vocalization;44
9.3;Chapter 2.3. Evolution of the infant separation call: rodent ultrasonic vocalization;50
9.4;Chapter 2.4. Understanding the evolutionary origin and diversification of bat echolocation calls;58
10;Section 3. Diversity of Vocalizations;70
10.1;Chapter 3.1. A frequency scaling rule in mammalian vocalization;72
10.2;Chapter 3.2. Elephant infrasounds: long-range communication;78
10.3;Chapter 3.3. Rat ultrasonic vocalization: short-range communication;90
10.4;Chapter 3.4. Ultrasonic calls of wild and wild-type rodents;98
10.5;Chapter 3.5. Vocal repertoire in mouse pups: strain differences;110
11;Section 4. Vocalizations as Specific Stimuli: Selective Perception of Vocalization;118
11.1;Chapter 4.1. Subcortical responses to species-specific vocalizations;120
11.2;Chapter 4.2. Activation of limbic system structures by replay of ultrasonic vocalization in rats;134
11.3;Chapter 4.3. Selective perception and recognition of vocal signals;146
11.4;Chapter 4.4. Cortical processing of vocal sounds in primates;156
12;Section 5. Effects of Vocalization on the Organism’s State and Behavior: Brain as an Amplifier of Vocal Signals;170
12.1;Chapter 5.1. Vocalization as a social signal in defensive behavior;172
12.2;Chapter 5.2. Effect of altricial pup ultrasonic vocalization on maternal behavior;180
12.3;Chapter 5.3. Vocalization as a specific trigger of emotional responses;188
12.4;Chapter 5.4. Vocalizations as tools for influencing the affect and behavior of others;198
12.5;Chapter 5.5. Brain mechanisms for processing perceived emotional vocalizations in humans;208
13;Section 6. Limbic Generation of Vocalization: Vocalization as an Index of Behavioral State;220
13.1;Chapter 6.1. Emotional causes and consequences of social-affective vocalization;222
13.2;Chapter 6.2. Frequency modulated 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalizations reflect a positive emotional state in the rat: neural substrates and therapeutic implications;230
13.3;Chapter 6.3. Vocal expression of emotion in a nocturnal prosimian primate group, mouse lemurs;236
13.4;Chapter 6.4. Rat infant isolation vocalizations and their modulation by social cues as a model of expression of infantile emotionality;248
14;Section 7. Hypothalamic/Limbic Integrative Function for Vocal/Behavioral Outcome;262
14.1;Chapter 7.1. Limbic, hypothalamic and periaqueductal gray circuitry and mechanisms controlling rage and vocalization in the cat;264
14.2;Chapter 7.2. The polyvagal hypothesis: common mechanisms mediating autonomic regulation, vocalizations and listening;276
14.3;Chapter 7.3. Medial cholinoceptive vocalization strip in the cat and rat brains: initiation of defensive vocalizations;286
14.4;Chapter 7.4. Hypothalamic control of pain vocalization and affective dimension of pain signaling;302
14.5;Chapter 7.5. Responses of limbic, midbrain and brainstem structures to electrically-induced vocalizations;314
14.6;Chapter 7.6. Adult house mouse ( Mus musculus ) ultrasonic calls: hormonal and pheromonal regulation;324
15;Section 8. Midbrain and Central Pattern Generators for Vocalization;332
15.1;Chapter 8.1. Role of the periaqueductal gray in expressing vocalization;334
15.2;Chapter 8.2. Localization of the central pattern generator for vocalization;350
15.3;Chapter 8.3. Neuronal networks involved in the generation of vocalization;360
15.4;Chapter 8.4. Central pattern generators for orofacial movements and speech;372
16;Section 9. Integrative Motor Functions of the Ambiguus, Retroambiguus and Parabrachial Nuclei;392
16.1;Chapter 9.1. Functions of larynx in breathing, vocalization and airway protective reflexes;394
16.2;Chapter 9.2. Vocal – respiratory interactions in the parabrachial nucleus;404
16.3;Chapter 9.3. Audio – vocal interactions in the mammalian brain;414
16.4;Chapter 9.4. Vocal control in echolocating bats;424
17;Section 10. Sound Production by Larynx;438
17.1;Chapter 10.1. Functions of the larynx and production of sounds;440
17.2;Chapter 10.2. Structure and oscillatory function of the vocal folds;448
17.3;Chapter 10.3. Mechanisms and evolution of roaring-like vocalization in mammals;460
17.4;Chapter 10.4. Generation of sound in marine mammals;472
18;Section 11. Vocal Communication Systems in Mammals: Semiotic Codes in Vocalization;488
18.1;Chapter 11.1. Control of gestures and vocalizations in primates;490
18.2;Chapter 11.2. The generation of functionally referential and motivational vocal signals in mammals;498
18.3;Chapter 11.3. Auditory categories in the non-human primate;508
18.4;Chapter 11.4. Recognition of individuals within the social group: signature vocalizations;516
18.5;Chapter 11.5. Evolution of mammalian vocal signals: development of semiotic content and semantics of human language;526
19;Index;536