Clifford Harpole

Singing mice speak volumes | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory All mice squeak, but only some sing. Scotinomys teguina, aka Alston’s singing mice, hail from the cloud forests of Costa Rica. More than 2,000 miles north, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) neurosc...

Ever see a mouse stand on its hind legs and belt out a song?@xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @cliffscience.bsky.social, and @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social track this behavior in Alston’s singing mice. See what it might say about the origins of communication. cshl.edu/singing-mice-speak-volumes/

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Bridging brains and bioacoustics talks for October 23rd @ 10:00 am EST: From Clifford Harpole (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory): Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node From Léo Perrier (Universite de Neuchatel): Unravelling the acoustic network of striped mice

The next Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar is happening in 2 weeks!

Join us to learn all about the neuroscience and ecology of acoustic communication in mice from @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social

🗓️ October 23rd @ 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

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For no good reason, when I plot a spectrogram for visual inspection or sharing I just use regular ones. I had never really considered it though!

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USVSEG: A robust method for segmentation of ultrasonic vocalizations in rodents Rodents’ ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) provide useful information for assessing their social behaviors. Despite previous efforts in classifying subcategories of time-frequency patterns of USV syllab...

USVSEG uses multi-tapered spectrograms to segment rodent vocalizations. It is very robust! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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