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SUBMITTER: Hechavarria JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7192923 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hechavarría Julio C JC Jerome Beetz M M García-Rosales Francisco F Kössl Manfred M
Scientific reports 20200430 1
Communication sounds are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, where they play a role in advertising physiological states and/or socio-contextual scenarios. Human screams, for example, are typically uttered in fearful contexts and they have a distinctive feature termed as "roughness", which depicts amplitude fluctuations at rates from 30-150 Hz. In this article, we report that the occurrence of fast acoustic periodicities in harsh sounding vocalizations is not unique to humans. A roughness-like stru ...[more]