TY - JOUR
T1 - The units of perception in the antiphonal calling behavior of cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)
T2 - Playback experiments with long calls
AU - Ghazanfar, Asif A.
AU - Flombaum, Jonathan I.
AU - Miller, Cory T.
AU - Hauser, Marc D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This research adheres to the guidelines for the use and care of animals as required by NIH and Harvard University. For helpful comments and advice on the manuscript, we would like to thank Donald Katz, Laurie Santos, and Dan Weiss. We would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions. This work was supported by grants from NIH (DC00377-01) to A.A.G. and NSF (SBR-9602858 and 9357976) to M.D.H.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - We investigated how the acoustic structure of the cotton-top tamarin monkey's (Saguinus oedipus) combination long call relates to the antiphonal calling behavior of conspecifics. Combination long calls can function as contact calls and are produced by socially isolated individuals. Often conspecifics respond to these calls with their own long calls. Structurally, these calls are always composed of one or more 'chirps' followed by two or more 'whistles'. We compared the antiphonal calling responses to playbacks of complete, naturally produced long calls versus single whistles or single chirps. Subjects responded significantly more to whole calls than to either syllable-type alone. Thus, our data suggest that, in terms of the antiphonal calling behavior of socially isolated conspecifics, the whole long call is the unit of perception.
AB - We investigated how the acoustic structure of the cotton-top tamarin monkey's (Saguinus oedipus) combination long call relates to the antiphonal calling behavior of conspecifics. Combination long calls can function as contact calls and are produced by socially isolated individuals. Often conspecifics respond to these calls with their own long calls. Structurally, these calls are always composed of one or more 'chirps' followed by two or more 'whistles'. We compared the antiphonal calling responses to playbacks of complete, naturally produced long calls versus single whistles or single chirps. Subjects responded significantly more to whole calls than to either syllable-type alone. Thus, our data suggest that, in terms of the antiphonal calling behavior of socially isolated conspecifics, the whole long call is the unit of perception.
KW - Contact calls
KW - Primate auditory cortex
KW - Primate communication
KW - Temporal processing
KW - Vocal communication
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U2 - 10.1007/s003590000173
DO - 10.1007/s003590000173
M3 - Article
C2 - 11318375
AN - SCOPUS:0035096269
SN - 0340-7594
VL - 187
SP - 27
EP - 35
JO - Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology
JF - Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology
IS - 1
ER -