Neuroendocrine Regulation of Animal Vocalization
Mechanisms and Anthropogenic Factors in Animal Communication
- 1st Edition - December 4, 2020
- Editors: Cheryl S. Rosenfeld, Frauke Hoffmann
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 1 6 0 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 1 6 1 - 7
Neuroendocrine Regulation of Animal Vocalization: Mechanisms and Anthropogenic Factors in Animal Communication examines the underpinning neuroendocrine (NE) mechanisms that driv… Read more
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Request a sales quoteNeuroendocrine Regulation of Animal Vocalization: Mechanisms and Anthropogenic Factors in Animal Communication examines the underpinning neuroendocrine (NE) mechanisms that drive animal communication across taxa. Written by international subject experts, the book focuses on the importance of animal communication in survival and reproduction at an individual and species level, and the impact that increased production and accumulation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can have on these regulatory processes.
This book discusses sound production, perception, processing, and response across a range of animals. This includes insects, fish, bats, birds, nonhuman primates, infant humans, and many others. Some chapters analyze how neuroactive substances, endocrine control, and chemical pollution affect the physiology of the animal’s perceptive and sound-producing organs, as well as their auditory and vocal receptors and pathways. Other chapters address the recent approaches governments have taken to protect against the endocrine disruption of animal (vocal) behaviors. The book is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students seeking first-rate material on neuroendocrinological effects on animal behavior and communication.
- Serves as the most comprehensive cross-taxa study of its kind, revolutionary in its focus on the impacts of EDCs on the processes guiding animal communication
- Emphasizes the importance of production, perception and processing of acoustic vocalization for survival
- Analyzes recent governmental policies and protections against the effects of EDCs on humans and wildlife
Researchers and advanced students in behavioral neuroscience, neurobiology, neuroendocrinology, neuroethology, animal behavior, animal communication, neurolinguistics, and other fields interested in behavioral, cognitive, affective, and social neuroscience
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I: Introduction
- Chapter 1: Neuroendocrine control of sound production and perception
- Abstract
- Seasonal and endocrine regulation of sound production and perception
- Neuroendocrine regulation of sound production and perception
- Does environmental exposure to endocrine-disrupting compounds affect sound production and perception?
- Part II: Sound Production and Perception
- Section B: Vertebrates
- Section A: Invertebrates
- Chapter 2: Regulation of acoustic sensory-to-motor processing in insects
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Acoustic communication in insects
- Neuroendocrine control of insect acoustic communication
- Chapter 3: Acoustic identification of insects based on cepstral data fusion and hidden Markov models
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Related work
- Material and methods
- Segmentation and feature extraction
- Classification system
- Experimental methodology
- Conclusions and future work
- Chapter 4: Acoustic/vibration behaviors in crustaceans
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Mechanisms of sound production, perception, and physiological roles
- Differences in the role of sound/vibration in association with ecological characteristics
- Impacts of human activities on sound production, sound perception, and communication in crustaceans
- Section B.1: Poikilothermic vertebrates
- Chapter 5: Vocal production in anurans
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Hormones and behavior
- Peripheral mechanisms of vocal production
- Central mechanisms of vocal production
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Endocrine modulation of acoustic communication: Xenopus laevis as a model system
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Auditory processing
- Acoustic communication in X. laevis
- Environmental endocrine disruption
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7: Reptile sound production and perception
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The anatomy of the reptile ear
- The vocal apparatus
- Tuatara
- Lizards
- Snakes
- Turtles
- Crocodylians
- Conclusion
- Section B.2: Mammals
- Chapter 8: The role of sex hormones in human language development
- Abstract
- Sex-specific differences in language development and the motivation to investigate infant vocalizations
- Transient activations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis during prespeech development
- Summary
- Chapter 9: From whispers to howling cries: Sound production and perception in nonhuman primates
- Abstract
- Diversity and functions of calls within various social contexts
- Effects of vocalizations on behavior and development
- Sound production mechanisms in nonhuman primates
- Sound perception and auditory pathways in nonhuman primates
- Neuroactive substances and neuroendocrine control
- Chapter 10: Canine sound production, perception, and processing
- Abstract
- Sound production mechanisms and function of acoustic signals—A short overview
- Functional neuronal pathways and neuroendocrine control of canine vocalizations
- Vocal perception and canine brain auditory pathways
- Effects of vocalizations on behavior and development
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Artiodactyl vocalization
- Abstract
- Introduction
- How ungulates produce sounds
- Why ungulates produce sounds (functional significance)
- Vocalization variability among ungulates
- Evolutionary development
- Chapter 12: Elephant sonic and infrasonic sound production, perception, and processing
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Diversity and function of vocalizations
- Sound production
- Neuroendocrine-associated behavioral patterns in male elephants
- Auditory and seismic sound perception
- Vocal production learning
- Chapter 13: Neuroendocrine control of vocalizations in rodents
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Importance of social context for illuminating the effects of steroid hormones on behavior
- Energetics and the effects of hormones on vocalizations—Importance of internal state and context
- Rapid effects of hormones on rodent USVs
- USVs as indicators of positive and negative affective states
- Neuropeptide regulation of USVs
- Conclusions
- Chapter 14: The perception of acoustic signals and the hormonal control over acoustic communication in rodents
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Ultrasonic and sonic vocalizations produced by rodents
- Glucocorticoids
- Mineralocorticoids
- Estrogen
- Insulin-like growth factor-1
- Thyroid hormone
- Conclusions
- Chapter 15: Vocalization in subterranean and fossorial rodents
- Abstract
- Subterranean and fossorial rodents
- Acoustic conditions underground
- Reproductive hormones
- Oxytocin and vasopressin
- Conclusion
- Chapter 16: Sonic and ultrasonic communication in bats: Acoustics, perception, and production
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Call structure and organization
- Call processing and perception
- Vocal production
- Neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, and neurohormones
- Genetic underpinnings: Perception versus production
- Summary and future directions
- Chapter 17: Sound production and propagation in cetaceans
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Location and mechanism of sound production in toothed whales
- Sound propagation in the toothed whale head
- Characteristics of the acoustic signals of toothed whales
- Recognition capabilities and communication of toothed whales
- Baleen whales sounds
- Summary
- Chapter 18: Marsupial vocal communication: A review of vocal signal production, form, and function
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction
- Mammal vocal signal production
- Overview of vocal communication in marsupials
- Hormonal correlates of acoustic variation in marsupial vocalizations
- Conclusions
- Section B.3: Birds
- Chapter 19: Neuroendocrine regulation of vocalizations and other sounds in nonsongbirds
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Neuroanatomy and neuroendocrine control of calling behavior in land fowl
- Neuroanatomy and neuroendocrine control of vocalizations in nonsongbird Neoaves
- Neuroanatomy and neuroendocrine control of communicative nonvocal sounds
- Conclusion
- Chapter 20: Courtship vocalizations in nonsongbirds: Auditory and neuroendocrine mechanisms in intersexual communication
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Neural pathways for song and call
- The higher auditory regions for song or call perception in parrots and songbirds
- Courtship vocalization affects reproductive physiology and behavior
- Hypothalamic neuropeptides and the HPG axis
- Auditory inputs to the hypothalamic neuroendocrine cells
- Summary and future direction
- Part III: The Biology and Politics of a Silent Spring
- Chapter 21: Endocrine disruptors and potential effects on communication in rodents and other species
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Programs used to examine endocrine disruption of rodent vocalization
- Endocrine disruption of rodent vocalizations
- Endocrine disruption of fish and amphibian communication
- Endocrine disruption of avian vocalization
- Potential endocrine disruption of communication in children
- Conclusions and future directions
- Chapter 22: Measures to curb endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the United States
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Regulation by the US EPA and collective action with other countries
- Effect of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on behavior
- US FDA’s investigations and regulations into the EDC, Bisphenol A (BPA)
- Conclusions
- Chapter 23: Assessment of endocrine disruptors under European regulations
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The Weybridge Report
- European Commission strategy for endocrine disruptors
- The European Regulations
- Chapter 24: Assessment strategies of endocrine disrupters under regulations of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan
- Abstract
- Disclaimer
- Acknowledgment
- SPEED’98 (1998–2005)
- The enhanced tasks on endocrine disruption (2005–2010)
- EXTEND2010 (2010–2016)
- EXTEND2016 (2016 to the present)
- A perspective of developing test methods
- Chapter 25: Methods to curb endocrine disrupting chemicals in Africa
- Abstract
- Background
- Methodological approach
- An overview of South African EDC studies
- Environmental health risk assessment
- Pesticide regulation
- Water quality guidelines and EDC assessment
- Mitigation strategies for EDC exposure in South Africa
- Conclusions and future perspectives
- Chapter 26: Final thoughts on understanding animal vocalizations in the 21st century
- Abstract
- Index
- No. of pages: 424
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 4, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128151600
- eBook ISBN: 9780128151617
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Cheryl S. Rosenfeld
Cheryl S. Rosenfeld, DVM, PhD, has published extensively on how maternal diet and developmental exposure to endocrine-disrupting compounds affect offspring outcomes. She has written several review articles and book chapters, including the most recent one on animal models of transgenerational epigenetic effects in Transgenerational Epigenetics: Evidence and Debate, published by Elsevier. She also edited and coauthored the book The Epigenome and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, which won the BMA Medical Award for Basic and Clinical Sciences in 2016.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United StatesFH
Frauke Hoffmann
Frauke Hoffmann received her Dr. rer. nat. in 2012 at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, focusing on animal communication and EDC effects on vocalizations. She is currently a senior scientific officer at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Scientific Officer, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, GermanyRead Neuroendocrine Regulation of Animal Vocalization on ScienceDirect