Melody matters: An acoustic study of domestic cat meows in six contexts and four mental states
(2019) VIHAR-2019 p.29-34- Abstract
- This study investigates domestic cat vocalisations in different contexts and mental states. Measures of fundamental frequency (f0) and duration as well as f0 contours of 780 meows from 40 cats were analysed. We found significant effects of recording context and of mental state on f0 and duration. Additionally, contours in positive (affiliative) contexts and mental states were predominantly rising, while those produced in negative contexts and mental states were predominantly falling. Our results suggest that cats use paralinguistic information and biological codes to signal mental state.
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- author
- Schötz, Susanne LU ; van de Weijer, Joost LU and Eklund, Robert
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019-07-13
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Proc. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Vocal interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR)
- editor
- Dassow, Angela ; Marxer, Ricard ; Moore, Roger K. and Stowell, Dan
- pages
- 29 - 34
- publisher
- Ricard Marxer
- conference name
- VIHAR-2019
- conference location
- London, United Kingdom
- conference dates
- 2019-08-29 - 2019-08-30
- ISBN
- 978-2-9562029-1-2
- project
- Melody in human–cat communication
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 0ecc1469-5187-42d8-b367-dced06c9cf4d
- alternative location
- http://vihar-2019.vihar.org/assets/VIHAR_2019_proceedings.pdf
- date added to LUP
- 2019-09-16 17:02:03
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