CORTICAL LESION EFFECTS AND VOCALIZATION IN THE SQUIRREL-MONKEY
CORTICAL LESION EFFECTS AND VOCALIZATION IN THE SQUIRREL-MONKEY
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DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(82)91204-5
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
JURGENS, U
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作者:
KIRZINGER, A;JURGENS, U
The effects of bilateral destruction of the cortical face area, anterior and posterior supplementary motor area and anterior cingular cortex on spontaneous vocalization were studied in 16 squirrel monkeys (S. sciureus). Each type of lesion was made in 2 groups of 2 animals each. Both animals of a group received the same type of lesion at the same day. Each group was recorded for 10 sessions of 1 h before operation and 10 sessions after operation. Pre- and post-operative vocalizations were compared in respect to total number and acoustic structure. None of the lesions affected acoustic structure as judged by sonagraphic analysis. Lesions in the anterior supplementary motor area (at the level of the callosal genu) reduced the total vocalization number significantly. This decrease was essentially due to a drastic reduction of the so-called isolation peep, a long-distance contact call. The cortical face area is apparently only involved in the control of learned vocal utterances (such as human speech and song) but not in the production of genetically preprogrammed utterances (such as monkey calls and human pain groans). The anterior cingulate cortex is probably necessary for the volitional initiation of vocalization but not for the initiation of calls in an emotional situation. The posterior supplementary motor area does not apparently play any role in vocal behavior of monkeys. The anterior supplementary motor area may be involved in the production of vocalizations which are not triggered directly by external events.