Spontaneous Mouse Behavior in Presence of Dissonance and Acoustic Roughness
According to a novel hypothesis (Arnal et al., 2015, Current Biology 25:2051–2056), auditory roughness, or temporal envelope modulations between 30 and 150 Hz, are present in both natural and artificial human alarm signals, which boosts the detection of these alarms in various tasks. These results a...
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| description | According to a novel hypothesis (Arnal et al., 2015, Current Biology 25:2051–2056), auditory roughness, or temporal envelope modulations between 30 and 150 Hz, are present in both natural and artificial human alarm signals, which boosts the detection of these alarms in various tasks. These results also shed new light on the unpleasantness of dissonant sounds to humans, which builds upon the high level of roughness present in such sounds. However, it is not clear whether this hypothesis also applies to other species, such as rodents. In particular, whether consonant/dissonant chords, and particularly whether auditory roughness, can trigger unpleasant sensations in mice remains unknown. Using an autonomous behavioral system, which allows the monitoring of mouse behavior over a period of weeks, we observed that C57Bl6J mice did not show any preference for consonant chords. In addition, we found that mice showed a preference for rough sounds over sounds having amplitude modulations in their temporal envelope outside the “rough” range. These results suggest that some emotional features carried by the acoustic temporal envelope are likely to be species-specific. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ca377e2a66c846a0bfa848e5531709682022-12-21T23:43:19ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience1662-51532020-10-011410.3389/fnbeh.2020.588834588834Spontaneous Mouse Behavior in Presence of Dissonance and Acoustic RoughnessOlivier Postal0Olivier Postal1Typhaine Dupont2Warren Bakay3Noémi Dominique4Christine Petit5Christine Petit6Christine Petit7Nicolas Michalski8Boris Gourévitch9Boris Gourévitch10Institut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, INSERM, Paris, FranceSorbonne Université, Collège Doctoral, Paris, FranceInstitut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, INSERM, Paris, FranceInstitut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, INSERM, Paris, FranceInstitut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, INSERM, Paris, FranceInstitut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, INSERM, Paris, FranceSyndrome de Usher et Autres Atteintes Rétino-Cochléaires, Institut de la Vision, Paris, FranceCollège de France, Paris, FranceInstitut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, INSERM, Paris, FranceInstitut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, INSERM, Paris, FranceCNRS, Paris, FranceAccording to a novel hypothesis (Arnal et al., 2015, Current Biology 25:2051–2056), auditory roughness, or temporal envelope modulations between 30 and 150 Hz, are present in both natural and artificial human alarm signals, which boosts the detection of these alarms in various tasks. These results also shed new light on the unpleasantness of dissonant sounds to humans, which builds upon the high level of roughness present in such sounds. However, it is not clear whether this hypothesis also applies to other species, such as rodents. In particular, whether consonant/dissonant chords, and particularly whether auditory roughness, can trigger unpleasant sensations in mice remains unknown. Using an autonomous behavioral system, which allows the monitoring of mouse behavior over a period of weeks, we observed that C57Bl6J mice did not show any preference for consonant chords. In addition, we found that mice showed a preference for rough sounds over sounds having amplitude modulations in their temporal envelope outside the “rough” range. These results suggest that some emotional features carried by the acoustic temporal envelope are likely to be species-specific.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.588834/fullauditory roughnessauditory consonanceauditory dissonancetemporal envelopeenvelope modulationsaversive sounds |
| spellingShingle | Olivier Postal Olivier Postal Typhaine Dupont Warren Bakay Noémi Dominique Christine Petit Christine Petit Christine Petit Nicolas Michalski Boris Gourévitch Boris Gourévitch Spontaneous Mouse Behavior in Presence of Dissonance and Acoustic Roughness Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience auditory roughness auditory consonance auditory dissonance temporal envelope envelope modulations aversive sounds |
| title | Spontaneous Mouse Behavior in Presence of Dissonance and Acoustic Roughness |
| title_full | Spontaneous Mouse Behavior in Presence of Dissonance and Acoustic Roughness |
| title_fullStr | Spontaneous Mouse Behavior in Presence of Dissonance and Acoustic Roughness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spontaneous Mouse Behavior in Presence of Dissonance and Acoustic Roughness |
| title_short | Spontaneous Mouse Behavior in Presence of Dissonance and Acoustic Roughness |
| title_sort | spontaneous mouse behavior in presence of dissonance and acoustic roughness |
| topic | auditory roughness auditory consonance auditory dissonance temporal envelope envelope modulations aversive sounds |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.588834/full |
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