Active Sampling in Primate Vocal Interactions.
| Autor: | Varella TT; Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, USA., Takahashi DY; Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Av. Nascimento de Castro, 2155 - Morro Branco, Natal, RN 59056-450, Brasil., Ghazanfar AA; Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | BioRxiv : the preprint server for biology [bioRxiv] 2023 Dec 06. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 06. |
| DOI: | 10.1101/2023.12.05.570161 |
| Abstrakt: | Active sensing is a behavioral strategy for exploring the environment. In this study, we show that contact vocal behaviors can be an active sensing mechanism that uses sampling to gain information about the social environment, in particular, the vocal behavior of others. With a focus on the realtime vocal interactions of marmoset monkeys, we contrast active sampling to a vocal accommodation framework in which vocalizations are adjusted simply to maximize responses. We conducted simulations of a vocal accommodation and an active sampling policy and compared them with real vocal exchange data. Our findings support active sampling as the best model for marmoset monkey vocal exchanges. In some cases, the active sampling model was even able to predict the distribution of vocal durations for individuals. These results suggest a new function for primate vocal interactions in which they are used by animals to seek information from social environments. Competing Interests: The authors declare they have no competing interests. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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