2 Apr
2015
2 Apr
'15
10:35 a.m.
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its
talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Angela Stoger-Horwath (University of Vienna)
Mammal Communication Lab
Department of Cognitive Biology
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 17:00-18:30
NEW Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7,
1st floor, room 101.
‘All about that bass’
Elephant vocal communication: sound production and adaptive context
Although living in substantially different habitats, African (Loxodonta
sp.) and Asian (Elephas maximus) elephants are extremely social and
intra-specific communication is highly developed in these species. In
particular, elephants are very vocal and acoustic signals play an
integral part within the society of African and Asian elephants.
Elephants make extensive use of vocalizations with fundamental
frequencies in the infrasonic range and exhibit an interesting vocal
plasticity (grading between call types, call type combinations, and
sophisticated, context-dependent within-call type flexibility affecting
all parameters including vocal tract resonance frequencies (formants).
In addition, previously undocumented vocalizations sometimes emerge-
mostly documented in captive elephants: sound invention and vocal
imitation is apparent in both recent genera of Elephantidae.
In my talk I will discuss vocal production mechanisms and the function
of infrasonic vocalizations and will further focus on the vocal learning
ability of elephants, it’s neural bases and potential adaptive context.
See more at:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-04-08/departmental-colloquium-a…
We're looking forward to see you there! (Oktober 6 street 7, room 101)
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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