title: Reconstruction of vocal interactions in a group of small songbirds.
abstract: The main obstacle for investigating vocal interactions in vertebrates is the difficulty of discriminating individual vocalizations of rapidly moving, sometimes simultaneously vocalizing individuals. We developed a method of recording and analyzing individual vocalizations in free-ranging animals using ultraminiature back-attached sound and acceleration recorders. Our method allows the separation of zebra finch vocalizations irrespective of background noise and the number of vocalizing animals nearby.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Victor N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Anisimov
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Joshua A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Herbst
authors.affiliation: Echelon-Geolife, Moscow, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Andrei N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Abramchuk
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Alexander V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Latanov
authors.affiliation: 1] Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. [2] Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ) Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Richard H R
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Hahnloser
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Alexei L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Vyssotski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D046369:Finches / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D059629:Signal-To-Noise Ratio; D013018:Sound Spectrography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D014828:Vocalization, Animal