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| Reviewing Discoveries About Vocal Recognition Across Experimental Approaches Summer G.Eckhardt1, 2, Grace Smith-Vidaurre1, 2, 3. 1Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.2Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.3Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA |
Abstract
Tracking differentiated social relationships through social recognition may be critically important for individual reproduction and survival. While information-rich communication signals, such as vocalizations, can hold identity information important for receivers, we are still missing a comprehensive understanding of whether and how receivers use the identity information encoded by signalers for social recognition, particularly when such signals are socially learned. Moreover, studies of vocal recognition often focus overall inferences on either vocal production or auditory perception. We review and integrate findings about the production and perception of identity information in the vocal modality across three common experimental approaches in social recognition studies: playback, habituation-dishabituation, and operant conditioning experiments. This review serves as a guide for future work on how vocalizations facilitate social recognition in complex social environments, and highlights the need to address questions in ways that include both the encoding of identity information via vocal production and the decoding of vocal information through auditory perception.
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