Signalers and Receivers in Animal Communication Export

@article{citeulike:2301418, abstract = {In animal communication natural selection favors callers who vocalize to affect the behavior of listeners and listeners who acquire information from vocalizations, using this information to represent their environment. The acquisition of information in the wild is similar to the learning that occurs in laboratory conditioning experiments. It also has some parallels with language. The dichotomous view that animal signals must be either referential or emotional is false, because they can easily be both: The mechanisms that cause a signaler to vocalize do not limit a listener's ability to extract information from the call. The inability of most animals to recognize the mental states of others distinguishes animal communication most clearly from human language. Whereas signalers may vocalize to change a listener's behavior, they do not call to inform others. Listeners acquire information from signalers who do not, in the human sense, intend to provide it.}, author = {Seyfarth, Robert M. and Cheney, Dorothy L.}, citeulike-article-id = {2301418}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145121}, day = {17}, journal = {Annual Review of Psychology}, keywords = {animal, behavior, evolution, language, social, vocalizations}, month = {September}, pages = {145--173}, posted-at = {2008-01-29 09:27:54}, priority = {2}, title = {Signalers and Receivers in Animal Communication}, url = {http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145121}, volume = {54}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2301418 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2301418 N2 - In animal communication natural selection favors callers who vocalize to affect the behavior of listeners and listeners who acquire information from vocalizations, using this information to represent their environment. The acquisition of information in the wild is similar to the learning that occurs in laboratory conditioning experiments. It also has some parallels with language. The dichotomous view that animal signals must be either referential or emotional is false, because they can easily be both: The mechanisms that cause a signaler to vocalize do not limit a listener's ability to extract information from the call. The inability of most animals to recognize the mental states of others distinguishes animal communication most clearly from human language. Whereas signalers may vocalize to change a listener's behavior, they do not call to inform others. Listeners acquire information from signalers who do not, in the human sense, intend to provide it. JF - Annual Review of Psychology EP - 173 TI - Signalers and Receivers in Animal Communication VL - 54 SP - 145 KW - animal KW - behavior KW - evolution KW - language KW - social KW - vocalizations AU - Seyfarth, Robert AU - Cheney, Dorothy PY - 2003/09/17/ UR - http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145121 ER -