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dc.contributor.authorLattenkamp, Ella Z.
dc.contributor.authorLinnenschmidt, Meike
dc.contributor.authorMardus, Eva
dc.contributor.authorVernes, Sonja C.
dc.contributor.authorWiegrebe, Lutz
dc.contributor.authorSchutte, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-07T09:30:23Z
dc.date.available2021-09-07T09:30:23Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-25
dc.identifier.citationLattenkamp , E Z , Linnenschmidt , M , Mardus , E , Vernes , S C , Wiegrebe , L & Schutte , M 2021 , ' The vocal development of the pale spear-nosed bat is dependent on auditory feedback ' , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol. 376 , no. 1836 , 20200253 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0253en
dc.identifier.issn0962-8436
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 275773302
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: ba7e064e-f43a-45dd-b49d-e818833efaf1
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:1A2D91D145ADFB8599D4ECF1126D3AA7
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-0305-4584/work/99804767
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000693558500005
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85115818258
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23915
dc.descriptionFunding: The research was funded by the Human Frontiers Science Program (grant no. RGP0058/2016), awarded to L.W. and S.C.V. S.C.V. was supported by a Max Planck Research Group (MPRG) and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (MR/T021985/1). M.S. was funded by a grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (no. wi1518/17).en
dc.description.abstractHuman vocal development and speech learning require acoustic feedback, and humans who are born deaf do not acquire a normal adult speech capacity. Most other mammals display a largely innate vocal repertoire. Like humans, bats are thought to be one of the few taxa capable of vocal learning as they can acquire new vocalizations by modifying vocalizations according to auditory experiences. We investigated the effect of acoustic deafening on the vocal development of the pale spear-nosed bat. Three juvenile pale spear-nosed bats were deafened, and their vocal development was studied in comparison with an age-matched, hearing control group. The results show that during development the deafened bats increased their vocal activity, and their vocalizations were substantially altered, being much shorter, higher in pitch, and more aperiodic than the vocalizations of the control animals. The pale spear-nosed bat relies on auditory feedback for vocal development and, in the absence of auditory input, species-atypical vocalizations are acquired. This work serves as a basis for further research using the pale spear-nosed bat as a mammalian model for vocal learning, and contributes to comparative studies on hearing impairment across species.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.en
dc.subjectVocal developmenten
dc.subjectVocal learningen
dc.subjectDeafeningen
dc.subjectAuditory feedbacken
dc.subjectHearing impairmenten
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectQL Zoologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.subject.lccQLen
dc.titleThe vocal development of the pale spear-nosed bat is dependent on auditory feedbacken
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorUK Research and Innovationen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Bioinformatics Uniten
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0253
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberMR/T021985/1en


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