The high-pitched squeaks that mice emit when in pain can cause genuine physical discomfort in other mice who simply hear these distress calls, according to new research from Tokyo University of ...

Mice use almost completely distinct sets of neurons for their two different types of vocalizations—the squeaks they produce when in distress or fighting and the whistle-like ultrasonic vocalizations ...

Cornell neuroscientists have identified a group of midbrain neurons essential to social vocalizations produced by mice—but not the squeaks they make when distressed. The findings suggest that in mice, ...