“Of mice and men speak the same way”
“the Small mice from central America can reveal how we as humans converse with each other.”
“the Mice communicate with a type of singing. Now, researchers have found a neural pathways in the brain that control the song. Likely it is the same neural pathways within ourselves that make that we can engage in a quick dialogue.”
“The singing mice belong to the genus Scotinomys with two species whose range extends from southern Mexico to northern Panama.”
“Their song is extremely complex and includes hundreds of different high-frequency tones.”
“The challenge rivals through to duel with the song, a form of duets where the mice succeed each other at a high rate and where the song of each mouse are constantly changing in response to the song from the opponents.”
“by the Researchers, which was led by neurologist Michael Long at the New York University in the united states, notes that mice way to duel is similar to a quick conversation between people.”
“Long and his colleagues, who report their findings in Science, found that the song is controlled by neural pathways in the motor cortex. Some of these control the muscles, which is necessary to be able to produce the different tones in the song. The other controls the rapid alternation between the notes.”
“most Likely works the same way with ourselves when we converse with each other. The researchers think that the results can help us to understand what it is that happens in the brain when something goes wrong and we no longer can engage in dialogue, such as in autism or stroke.”
“Sångmössen includes two species, Scotinomys teguina, widespread from southern Mexico to Panama, and Scotinomys xerampelinus, with distribution in Costa Rica and Panama.”
“Both species are small with a weight of 12 to 15 grams. They are mainly found in cloud forests at 3 000 meters above the sea level. Their diet consists mainly of insects.”
“Source: Walker’s Mammals of the World”
