Highlights•Mouse ultrasonic vocalizations carry male behavioral state and fitness
information.•Males produce most courtship vocalizations, but females may also …

Vocalizations play a significant role in social communication across species. Analyses in
rodents have used a limited number of spectro-temporal measures to compare ultrasonic …

Mate choice is a potent generator of diversity and a fundamental pillar for sexual selection
and evolution. Mate choice is a multistage affair, where complex sensory information and …

The inferior colliculus (IC) is the major midbrain auditory integration center, where virtually
all ascending auditory inputs converge. Although the IC has been extensively studied for …

Animals communicate using sounds in a wide range of contexts, and auditory systems must
encode behaviorally relevant acoustic features to drive appropriate reactions. How feature …

The goal of describing how the human brain responds to complex acoustic stimuli has
driven auditory neuroscience research for decades. Often, a systems-based approach has …

Hearing in noise is a problem often assumed to depend on encoding of energy level by
channels tuned to target frequencies, but few studies have tested this hypothesis. The …

Across the animal kingdom, social interactions rely on sound production and perception.
From simple cricket chirps to more elaborate bird songs, animals go to great lengths to …

Understanding how the brain extracts the behavioral meaning carried by specific
vocalization types that can be emitted by various vocalizers and in different conditions is a …

Pigeons (Columba livia) have excellent flying and orienting abilities and are ideal study
subjects for biologists who research the underlying neurological mechanisms that modulate …