The communication skills and styles of autistic people have been the focus much research, but little work has explored preferences adults themselves. This study examined how prefer to communicate in multiple scenarios. Two hundred forty-five completed a novel questionnaire that required six modes be ranked order preference across seven different Participants also provided qualitative responses ...

Vocal production learning (VPL) involves the use of auditory experience to guide novel signals or modify pre-existing signals. It allows animals develop that are more complex and/or flexible than innately developed has evolved rarely in vocal animals, widespread only three avian and four mammalian taxa. The evolution VPL was accompanied by innovations motor neural circuitry. is rare because its...

Although in anurans the predominant mode of intra- and intersexual communication is vocalization, modalities used in addition to or instead of acoustic signals range from seismic and visual to chemical. In some cases, signals of more than one modality are produced through or by the anuran vocal sac. However, its role beyond acoustics has been neglected for some time and nonacoustic cues such as...

Linguists interested in language evolution tend to focus on combinatorial features and rightly point out the lack of comparable evidence in animal communication. However, human language is based on various unique capacities, such as a motor capacity of sophisticated vocal control and a cognitive capacity of acting on others' psychological states. These features are only present in very rudiment...

how does a journalist or an editor decide which news is worthy and which is not? according to some media researchers, they refer to a set of news values. one of the best known lists of such news values have been supplied by johan galtung and marie h. ruge. an analytical discussion on news values always refers to this list, which initially intended to cover international events. these factors i...

Processing the vocalizations of conspecifics is critical for adaptive social interaction. A species-specific voice-selective region has been identified in the right STS that responds more strongly to human vocal sounds compared with a variety of nonvocal sounds. However, the STS also activates in response to a wide range of signals used in communication, such as eye gaze, biological motion, and...

One of the great challenges facing developmental neuroscience is to understand how complex social interactions can shape brain development during ontogeny to affect adult functioning in social and behavioral contexts (1). Some of the most vexing behavioral problems, such as autism spectrum disorder that involves impaired social interactions, including verbal and nonverbal communication capabili...

Mirror neurons are theorized to serve as a neural substrate for spoken language in humans, but the existence and functions of auditory-vocal mirror neurons in the human brain remain largely matters of speculation. Songbirds resemble humans in their capacity for vocal learning and depend on their learned songs to facilitate courtship and individual recognition. Recent neurophysiological studies ...