The Physiological Control of Mammalian Vocalization

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction and Brainstem Mechanisms

   1. Investigating the Physiological Control of Mammalian Vocalizations

      • John D. Newman

      Pages 1-5

   2. On the Motor Coordination of Monkey Calls

      • Uwe Jürgens, Detlev Ploog

      Pages 7-19

   3. Functional Neural Pathways for Vocalization in the Domestic Cat

      • Nihal C. de Lanerolle, Frederick F. Lang

      Pages 21-41

   4. Studies on the Relation of the Midbrain Periaqueductal Gray, the Larynx and Vocalization in Awake Monkeys

      • Charles R. Larson, John D. Ortega, Elizabeth A. De Rosier

      Pages 43-65

   5. Neural Control of Vocalization in Bats at Peripheral to Midbrain Levels

      • Gerd Schuller, Susanne Radtke-Schuller

      Pages 67-85

   6. Auditory-Vocal Integration in the Midbrain of the Mustached Bat: Periaqueductal Gray and Reticular Formation

      • Nobuo Suga, Yukio Yajima

      Pages 87-107

   7. The Coordination of Intrinsic Laryngeal Muscle Activation During Phonatory and Non-Phonatory Tasks

      • Christy L. Ludlow, Mihoko Fujita

      Pages 109-118

3. Forebrain Mechanisms

   1. The Feline Isolation Call

      • J. S. Buchwald, G. Shipley, I. Altafullah, C. Hinman, J. Harrison, L. Dickerson

      Pages 119-135

   2. Amygdaloid Electrical Activity in Response to Conspecific Calls in Squirrel Monkey (S. Sciureus): Influence of Environmental Setting, Cortical Inputs, and Recording Site

      • Robert L. Lloyd, Arthur S. Kling

      Pages 137-151

   3. The Central Control of Biosonar Signal Production in Bats Demonstrated by Microstimulation of Anterior Cingulate Cortex in the Echolocating Bat, Pteronotus Parnelli Parnelli

      • David M. Gooler, William E. O’Neill

      Pages 153-183

   4. Evolution of Audiovocal Communication as Reflected by the Therapsid-Mammalian Transition and the Limbic Thalamocingulate Division

      • Paul D. MacLean

      Pages 185-201

   5. Structure and Connections of the Cingulate Vocalization Region in the Rhesus Monkey

      • Brent A. Vogt, Helen Barbas

      Pages 203-225

   6. Cingulate Gyrus and Supplementary Motor Correlates of Vocalization in Man

      • Jason W. Brown

      Pages 227-243

   7. Neural Correlates of Audio-Vocal Behavior: Properties of Anterior Limbic Cortex and Related Areas

      • Peter Müller-Preuss

      Pages 245-262

4. Neurochemical Mechanisms and Biobehavioral Correlates

   1. Neural and Neurochemical Control of the Separation Distress Call

      • Jaak Panksepp, Larry Normansell, Barbara Herman, Paul Bishop, Loring Crepeau

      Pages 263-299

   2. Ontogeny of Adrenergic and Opioid Effects on Separation Vocalizations in Rats

      • Priscilla Kehoe

      Pages 301-320

   3. Primate Models for the Management of Separation Anxiety

      • James C. Harris, John D. Newman

      Pages 321-330

   4. Rat Pup Ultrasonic Isolation Calls and the Benzodiazepine Receptor

      • T. Insel, L. Miller, R. Gelhard, J. Hill

      Pages 331-342

   5. Drug Effects on Primate Alarm Vocalizations

      • John R. Glowa, Jack Bergman, Thomas Insel, John D. Newman

      Pages 343-366

To the majority of biologists, the physiological control of mammalian vocalizations is only a small part of the large field of motor physiology. It is indeed a very specialized part, and the number of scientists dealing with it is relatively small. Still, it is an autonomous subject embracing more than the motor control of the body and is, therefore, by far more complex. Anatomically, essential cerebral structures involved in the control of gross and fine movements of the mammalian body seem to participate in the control of the voice as well. The central control system, however, as well as the larynx (the primary effector organ), possess features not found in the remaining motor system. An example is the perfect synergism of the many muscles which control the m. vocaZis, not to speak of the speed of successions in which this occurs. Furthermore, this muscle, similar to the facial muscles, is segmentally adjustable independently of the joints. The most remarkable feature of the central control area, however, seems to be the effector organ's manifold direct and indirect dependence on the limbic system of the brain. This makes the voice--like no other motor organ (with the partial exception of the facial musculature)--the chief organ for the expression of emotion and the indicator of behavioral states. Except in man, the voice is in­ dependent of neocortical control. Animal vocalizations are species­ typical and genetically programmed. Ethologically, they belong to the behavioral class of fixed action patterns.

• brain
• brainstem
• cortex
• forebrain
• muscle
• physiology

• National Institutes of Health, Poolesville, USA

  John D. Newman

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