Project description
Looking to the naked mole-rat to understand social communication and brain networks
Humans are good at communicating via vocal cues, for example by using variations in the sound of the voice. Yet humans are not alone in using vocalizations to share information. Many types of acoustic communication are found throughout the animal kingdom. The EU-funded SOFTCHIRP project aims to shed light on how social information encoded in acoustic signals is decoded within brain networks. To do this, the project will study vocal communication in the naked mole-rat. This animal is one of the only two eusocial mammals, making it a promising yet unexplored model for investigating the evolution of neural circuits for vocal communication, sociality and language.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Topic(s)
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedCoordinator
80539 Munchen
Germany
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