A horse's whinny is an unusually distinctive mix of sounds including both high and low frequencies. Reporting in Current Biology, researchers demonstrate how horses produce high-frequency sounds that ...

Researchers discovered a brain circuit that drives vocalization and ensures that you talk only when you breathe out, and stop talking when you breathe in. This circuit is under control of a brainstem ...

The ability to detect vocal sounds, and the more specialized skill of recognizing calls from one's own species, is supported by evolutionarily ancient brain mechanisms, according to a new study from ...

In a recent study published in Philosophical Transactions B, researchers investigated transitions in fundamental frequency (f o) vocalizations of New World monkeys. Understanding f o transitions in ...

Neuroscientists uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can’t? The journal Science published the research led by Emory University and the New ...