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Table 4 Measured and calculated acoustic parameters

From: Modeling the origins of mammalian sociality: moderate evidence for matrilineal signatures in mouse lemur vocalizations

Measured Parameters

Definition

Source

*F0S (KHz)

Freq. of F0 with highest amplitude at start

Osc. & PS

*F0Peak (KHz)

Freq of F0 with highest amplitude at max of F0

Spect. & PS

*F0E (KHz)

Freq. of F0 with highest amplitude at end

Spect. & PS

SB_Max

Frequency at 20 dB above F0S

PS

SB_Min

Frequency at 20 dB below F0S

PS

S (ms)

Start time of call

Osc.

P (ms)

Time of highest point of F0

Spect.

E (ms)

End time of call

Spect.

N (ms)

Start time of next call

Osc.

Calculated parameters

Definition

Calculation

*Start Bandwidth (KHz)

Bandwidth of F0 at start

SB_Max – SB_Min

*Call Duration (ms)

Time between start and end of call

E – S

*Time to Peak (ms)

Time between start and peak of call

P – S

*Inter-call Interval (ms)

Time between end of the call and start of the next call

N – E

  1. Osc Oscillogram, PS Power spectrum, and Spect Spectrogram. *parameters included in the principal component analysis. For more information see Figure 1 and Leliveld et al. [58].