Sound on the rebound: Bringing form and function back to the forefront in understanding nonhuman primate vocal signaling

By M. Owren, Drew Rendall. 2001

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Social Psychology

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Prosody in Infant-Directed Speech Is Similar Across Western and Traditional Cultures (2015, background): “…acoustic variables in vocal signals and their communicative functions, we should expect a great deal of cross-cultural similarity, and even cross-species similarity, in how form follows function (Bryant & Barrett, 2007; Cosmides, 1983; Fernald, 1992; E. S. Morton, 1977; Owren & Rendall, 2001).”
The central importance of information in studies of animal communication. (2010, background): “Along with others, they advocate a view of communication as management by signallers of the behaviour of receivers (see also Owren & Rendall 1997, 2001; Owren 2000; Rendall et al. 2009).”
What do animal signals mean (2009, background): “…grounded in the influence that specific acoustic properties of the calls have on broadly conserved neural, sensory, affective and learning systems in listeners that together help to support adaptive behavioural responding (Owings & Hennessy 1984; Owren & Rendall 1997, 2001; Owings & Morton 1998).”
What makes a cry a cry? A review of infant distress vocalizations (2012, background): “…2004; Newman, 2007; Panksepp, 1998; Panksepp and Biven, 2012), while also highlighting the essential relationship between the motivation underlying a vocalization, the structure of the vocalization and its influence on receivers (Morton, 1977; Owings and Morton, 1998; Owren and Rendall, 2001).”
Vocal Repertoire of Cebus capucinus: Acoustic Structure, Context, and Usage (2008, background): “Though many calls in the vocal repertoire of white-faced capuchins fit the predictions of calls that should increase attention and arousal in listeners, it is likely that calls influence the behavior of others via both physiological mechanisms elicited by physical characteristics of the calls and th”
The development of alarm-call behaviour in mammals and birds (2009, background): “…problematic: it implies a cooperative venture between sender and receiver, which need not be the case; and, by proposing that the acoustic structure of calls bears no relation to their function, it adds an unnecessary level of complexity to the process (Owings & Morton 1998; Owren & Rendall 2001).”
The Sound of Arousal: The Addition of Novel Non-linearities Increases Responsiveness in Marmot Alarm Calls (2009, background): “First, because individual vocal tracts vary, non-linearities may provide a source of individual discrimination (Volodina et al. 2006; but see Owren & Rendall 2001).”
Anti-predator behavior of group-living Malagasy primates: mixed evidence for a referential alarm call system (2002, methodology): “To control for acoustic properties of alarm calls that may elicit affect-conditioned responses, rather than specific responses corresponding to the type of alarm call (aerial or terrestrial; see Cheney and Seyfarth 1990; Owren and Rendall 2001), we used an alarm call (wahoo; Fig.”
Reconsidering the Evolution of Nonlinguistic Communication: The Case of Laughter (2003, background): “It is therefore not surprising that abrupt onsets and phenomena such as rapid upward frequency sweeps increase arousal levels in a variety of mammalian listeners, with slower-onset sounds and gradually falling frequencies found to decrease arousal (reviewed by Owren & Rendall, 2001 ).”
Human Culture in Evolutionary Perspective (2010, background): “Thus, when chimpanzees find food, they call so that they can have company while eating, as protection against predators; and when they spy a predator, they vocalize as a way of recruiting allies for defense, or as a way of signaling the predator that he has been spotted (Owren & Rendall, 2001 ).”
Music as a communicative medium (2009, background): “Yet a substantial literature (see, e.g., Owren & Rendall, 2001) suggests that there are at least some consistent correspondences between signal structure and signal outcome in animal communication.”
Nonverbal Dialects and Accents in Facial Expressions of Emotion (2013, background): “Modern evolutionary accounts emphasize individuals’ adaptation and the potential functions of emotional expressions, beyond leftover vestiges that read out our internal states (Owren & Rendall, 2001).”
Biphonation May Function to Enhance Individual Recognition in the Dhole, Cuon alpinus (2006, background): “…role of vocal tract formants as cues to individual identity in short-distance primate calls, such as lowfrequency non-biphonic grunt and ‘coo’ calls (Owren & Rendall 1997, 2001; Rendall et al. 1998), in the dhole the individual cues are based on a very complex call structure, resulting from…”