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Vocal production is organized on different levels of complexity. The lowest level is represented by vocal reactions that are genetically determined in their acoustic structure and are elicited in a reflex-like manner by external or internal stimuli. An example is pain shrieking. A heavy blow against the body, for instance, will elicit shrieking from birth on. A monkey or human infant does not need to hear shrieking from other conspecifics in order to be able to produce it: even deaf infants shriek (Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1973; Winter et al., 1973). There is also no need for prior experience with such a stimulus in the form of a pairing with another, unconditioned stimulus in the Pavlovian sense.
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Jürgens, U. (1995). Neuronal Control of Vocal Production in Non-Human and Human Primates. In: Zimmermann, E., Newman, J.D., Jürgens, U. (eds) Current Topics in Primate Vocal Communication. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9930-9_10
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