Production of guinea pig vocalizations by electrical brain stimulation under anaesthesia
Description
Four parts of the guinea pig brain were stimulated with tungsten electrodes under urethane anaesthesia to record sequences of vocalizations. These vocalizations were then compared with a series of templates of spontaneously produced vocalizations so that they could be identified as similar to the appropriate natural call. Each electrode position was stimulated a number of times at the same or different current levels and the identity and time of produced calls was recorded.
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Subjects
- Guinea pigs -- Physiology
- Guinea pigs -- Vocalization
- Guinea pigs as laboratory animals
- communication calls; vocalizations; guinea pig; electrical brain stimulation; periaqueductal gray substance; amygdala; hypothalamus; anterior cingulate cortex
- Biological Sciences
- Subjects Allied to Medicine::Anatomy, physiology & pathology::Physiology
- QS-QZ Preclinical sciences (NLM Classification)
- Q Science::QP Physiology::QP351 Neurophysiology and neuropsychology
Divisions
- University of Nottingham, UK Campus::Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences::School of Medicine
Research institutes and centres
- University of Nottingham, UK Campus::MRC Institute of Hearing Research
Deposit date
2018-03-12Data type
Recordings of stimulated calls as .wav files. Templates of naturally occuring calls used with Avisoft software. Excel spreadsheets with the times and identity of each call produced and the brain structure that had been stimulated.Contributors
- Shackleton, Trevor M.
- Zobay, Oliver
Funders
- Medical Research Council
Grant number
- Core grant for MRC Institute of Hearing Research
Collection dates
- November 2010 to October 2011
Data collection method
Audio files were recorded while the guinea pig produced a series of vocalizations in response to electrical brain stimulation. Each call sequence was isolated and analysed against natural templates with Avisoft Bioacoustics software to identify each call and record the start of the call in relation to the start of stimulation.Resource languages
- en
Copyright
- University of Nottingham