Midbrain neurons important for the production of mouse ultrasonic vocalizations are not required for distress calls.

ABSTRACT: A fundamental feature of vocal communication is that animals produce vocalizations with different acoustic features in different behavioral contexts (contact calls, territorial calls, courtship calls, etc.). The midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) is a key region that regulates vocal production, and artificial activation of the PAG can elicit the production of multiple species-typical vocalization types.^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} How PAG circuits are organized to regulate the production of different vocalization types remains unknown. On the one hand, studies have found that partial PAG lesions abolish the productio

SUBMITTER: Ziobro P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11696906 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature