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SUBMITTER: Kobayasi KI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3552533 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kobayasi Kohta I KI Hage Steffen R SR Berquist Sean S Feng Jiang J Zhang Shuyi S Metzner Walter W
Nature communications 20120101
Mammalian vocalizations exhibit large variations in their spectrotemporal features, although it is still largely unknown which result from intrinsic biomechanical properties of the larynx and which are under direct neuromuscular control. Here we show that mere changes in laryngeal air flow yield several non-linear effects on sound production, in an isolated larynx preparation from horseshoe bats. Most notably, there are sudden jumps between two frequency bands used for either echolocation or com ...[more]