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AES Student Submission form
Submitted: 2025-05-09 23:19:53
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ID: 39
Faculty and/or Staff Mentor(s)
- All student submissions for presentations at AES must have the approval of a WOU faculty or staff mentor. To learn more about this requirement please visit http://wou.edu/pure/academicexcellenceshowcase/students/. The identified and approving mentor(s) will be automatically notified upon completion of this form.
- If you do not have a mentor's approval, please discuss your presentation ideas and proposal abstract with a faculty or staff member and ask them for their approval and sponsorship before completing this form.
- You must have approval BEFORE submitting or your presentation may not be included in AES.
Mentor Email
ID: 30
Mentor Name
ID: 29
First: Jay
Last: Schwartz
Do you have more than one mentor who should be listed for this submission?
ID: 32
No
Has your faculty or staff mentor reviewed your proposal and approved it for submission?
ID: 3
Yes: Yes
Presenters
ID: 4
| WOU Email | First Name | Last Name | vNumber | Major | Year (Senior, Junior, etc.) | Home Town |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vduffy23@mail.wou.edu | Veda | Duffy | V00396500 | Psychology | Senior | Davis, CA |
What type of session are you participating in?
ID: 6
Presentation
Do you have a session key provided by your faculty mentor(s)?
ID: 8
Yes
Session Key
ID: 9
WOU-aes2025
Select the sponsored section your presentation will be part of
ID: 10
Behavioral Sciences Research Symposium
Title of your presentation/poster/performance
ID: 7
Can I Have Your Attention, Please: Acoustic Form and Function of Domestic Cat Vocalizations
Are there any accompanists or composers that should be recognized in the program?
ID: 14
No
Did your project involve Human Subjects?
ID: 15
Yes
Abstract or image files
ID: 17
I will add an abstract now
Abstract
ID: 21
Dependent animals’ vocalizations are thought to evolve acoustic characteristics that effectively capture the attention of their caregivers, ensuring that the vocalizer receives the food and care it needs to survive. In humans and other primates, infants produce noisy cries with high frequencies, rapid amplitude fluctuations, sharply rising frequencies, and short energy pulses to grab adults’ attention and convey urgency. The current study sets out to uncover which specific acoustic characteristics within cat vocalizations are effective at eliciting the attention of human listeners. Audio clips of vocalizations, each featuring one of the abovementioned characteristics, were gathered, as well as a control group of neutral calls. An online survey was created in which participants (n = 61) were instructed to listen to the calls and rate them on perceived emotional valence, arousal, as well as how annoying they found the call (annoyance being a widely utilized operationalization for attention). We hypothesize that calls with these characteristics would be rated the most annoying and therefore the most attention-grabbing. Results showed that noisy calls, or those with a low harmonics-to-noise ratio, were rated as higher in perceived arousal, more negative in emotional valence, and more annoying/attention-grabbing (p >.0001 for all).
Abstract Approved
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ID: 37
Yes
Do you give us permission to publish your work online in partnership with Hamersly Library?
ID: 16
Yes
Would you be interested in submitting your work to PURE Insights?
ID: 24
Yes
Model release statement
ID: 18
Yes
Are you willing to allow WOU to make a video recording of your session?
ID: 23
Yes
I am interested in participating in a session to learn about preparing:
ID: 25
Presentations: Presentations
Notes/Comments
ID: 26
I would like to attend a presentation help session, preferably if it is in the evening.
Name
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ID: 33
First: Veda
Last: Duffy
vNumber
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ID: 34
V00396500
Email
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ID: 35
vduffy23@wou.edu
