Primate Vocal Communication

Author : Dietmar Todt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642737692
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Vocal Communication written by Dietmar Todt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication is both a prerequisite and manifestation of social organization and in this sense several chapters of this volume are aimed to investigate the way vocal communication serves its ultimate function of maintaining social organization. Although manifold parallels exist to vocal communication in birds, additional mechanisms of vocalization are found in primates. Treating the various psychological, ecological, behavioral, and neurobiological aspects of vocalization this book provides an interdisciplinary approach for the understanding of biocommunication in primates including humans. Conceptual as well as methodological considerations are given in a balanced way. The addition of a comprehensive glossary gives an overview also to nonspecialists in this field.

Author : U. Jürgens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475799306
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Topics in Primate Vocal Communication written by U. Jürgens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 25 years ago, the first major review of primate communication appeared (Altmann, 1967). Since then, information on the communicative abilities of primates increased rapidly, resulting, 15 years later, in the appearance of the first volume in which signaling systems were analyzed in a broader variety of primate groups within an evolutionary perspective (Snowdon, Brown and Petersen, 1982). Seven years later, the first volume dedicated solely to primate vocal communication appeared (Todt, Goedeking and Symmes, 1988) and another four years later a volume followed in which nonverbal vocal communication in non-human primates and human infants was compared (Papousek, Jurgens and Papousek, 1992). None of these volumes, however, provided information about current technical advances in the field of bioacoustics, especially in digital sound analyzing systems, which offer primatologists, anthropologists and linguists nowadays a variety of rapid methods for analyzing human speech and non-human primate vocalizations in a quantitative and comparative way. Choosing the right method is difficult if a synopsis of these tools is lacking. Furthermore, information was particularly lacking on the natural signaling systems of two important primate groups, the prosimians and the apes. Likewise, new and unexpected insights into the ontogeny and evolution of vocal communication were gained during the past few years by the use of highly sophisticated sound analysis and statistical techniques.

Author : Dietmar Todt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783540193555
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Vocal Communication written by Dietmar Todt and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-09-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication is both a prerequisite and manifestation of social organization and in this sense several chapters of this volume are aimed to investigate the way vocal communication serves its ultimate function of maintaining social organization. Although manifold parallels exist to vocal communication in birds, additional mechanisms of vocalization are found in primates. Treating the various psychological, ecological, behavioral, and neurobiological aspects of vocalization this book provides an interdisciplinary approach for the understanding of biocommunication in primates including humans. Conceptual as well as methodological considerations are given in a balanced way. The addition of a comprehensive glossary gives an overview also to nonspecialists in this field.

Author : Rolf M. Quam
Publisher : Humana Press
ISBN 13 : 3319594788
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Hearing and Communication written by Rolf M. Quam and published by Humana Press. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive review of nonhuman primate audition and vocal communication. These are obviously intimately related topics, but are often addressed separately. The hearing abilities of primates have been tested experimentally in a large number of species across the primate order, and these studies have revealed both consistent patterns as well as interesting variation within and between taxonomic groups. Recent studies have shed light on how variation in anatomical structures along the auditory pathway relates to variation in auditory sensitivity. At the same time, ongoing studies of vocal communication in wild primate populations continue to reveal new insights into the social and environmental contexts of many primate calls, and the range of known primate vocalizations has increased dramatically with the development of more sophisticated and accessible auditory equipment and software that enables the recording and analysis of higher-fidelity and broader-band recordings, including documenting very high frequency (i.e. ultrasound) vocalizations. Historically the relative importance of primate calls has been evaluated qualitatively by the perception of the researcher, but new methods and approaches now enable a greater appreciation for how signals are used and perceived by the primates in question. The integration of anatomical and behavioral data on acoustic communication and the environmental correlates thereof has significant potential for reconstructing behavior in the fossil record. This confluence of factors and accumulating evidence for the sophistication and complexity in both the signal and its interpretation indicate that a book synthesizing this information across primates is warranted and represents an important contribution to the literature.

Author : Anne Vilain
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027204543
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Communication and Human Language written by Anne Vilain and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from disciplines surrounding language. The editors of the present book have gathered researchers from various fields, with the common objective of taking as seriously as possible the search for "continuities" from non-human primate vocal and gestural communication systems to human speech and language, in a multidisciplinary perspective combining ethology, neuroscience, developmental psychology and linguistics, as well as computer science and robotics. New data and theoretical elaborations on the emergence of referential communication and language are debated here by some of the most creative scientists in the world.

Author : Katja Liebal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521195047
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Communication written by Katja Liebal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multimodal approach to primate communication with focus on its cognitive foundations and how this relates to theories of language evolution.

Author : H. Papousek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521412650
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nonverbal Vocal Communication written by H. Papousek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-05-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book specialists from several disciplines review the present knowledge on neural substrates of vocal communication.

Author : Louis-Jean Boë
Publisher : Speech Production and Perception
ISBN 13 : 9783631737262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of Human Language written by Louis-Jean Boë and published by Speech Production and Perception. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a detailed picture of the continuities and ruptures between communication in primates and language in humans. It explores a diversity of perspectives on the origins of language, including a fine description of vocal communication in animals, mainly in monkeys and apes, but also in birds, the study of vocal tract anatomy and cortical control of the vocal productions in monkeys and apes, the description of combinatory structures and their social and communicative value, and the exploration of the cognitive environment in which language may have emerged from nonhuman primate vocal or gestural communication.

Author : Eugene S. Morton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107052254
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Vocal Communication written by Eugene S. Morton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a new approach to conceptualizing animal vocal communication, with an emphasis on how receivers' responses influence signalling.

Author : Nobuo Masataka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139439227
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Onset of Language written by Nobuo Masataka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Onset of Language outlines an approach to the development of expressive and communicative behaviour from early infancy to the onset of single word utterances. Nobuo Masataka's research is rooted in ethology and dynamic action theory. He argues that expressive and communicative actions are organized as a complex and cooperative system with other elements of the infant's physiology, behaviour and the social environments. Overall, humans are provided with a finite set of specific behaviour patterns, each of which is phylogenetically inherited as a primate species. However, the patterns are uniquely organized during ontogeny and a coordinated structure emerges which eventually leads us to acquire language. This fascinating book offers exciting insights into the precursors of speech and will be of interest to researchers and students of psychology, linguistics and animal behaviour biology.