Electric signals produced by weakly electric gymnotiform fish, long seen as communication attempts, may also serve to localize conspecifics, revealing a distinct functional role.

The genetic and behavioral diversity of the zebra finch, both in the wild and in captivity, make it well-suited for neuroethological studies of vocal learning, culture, and social bonding.

The accuracy of the Hybrid Vocalization Localizer (HyVL) brings a revolution to the study of social vocalizations of rodents and other animals, where vocalizations often occur in close proximity, and will empower downstream analysis of sequence and semantic analyses.

Located in the legs, the miniaturized katydid ears exhibit cuticular pinnae to only capture high-ultrasonic bat echolocation calls, but katydid also hear their own calls using alternative ear paths, which suggest that their ears operate in a colossal frequency range.

When ancestral Xenopus returned to water ~170mya, they evolved a new method for producing courtship calls underwater without airflow, using vibrations that also preserve essential acoustic information on species identity.

Inhibitory neurons in the hypothalamus and amygdala push and pull on the midbrain vocal gating circuit to trigger and suppress ultrasonic vocalization (USV) production in the mouse.

The decision to vocalize depends on neural circuits that balance the rewards of potential social affiliation with the risks of advertising.

Successful autism spectrum disorder gene discovery using forward genetics identifies KDM5A, which encodes a histone H3 lysine 4 demethylase, as a disease gene.

Rats learn to interpret cues predicting rewards delivered to social partners as valuable, but only if social information exchange is possible.

Auditory representations of natural sounds are similar in primary auditory cortex of ferrets and humans, but diverge sharply in non-primary areas for speech and music sounds.