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Item Data from: Rates of female mouse ultrasonic vocalizations are low and are not modulated by estrous state during interactions with muted malesMalone, Cassidy A.; Ziobro, Patryk; Khinno, Julia; Tschida, Katherine A. (2025)These files contain data supporting all results in Malone et al., Rates of female mouse ultrasonic vocalizations are low and are not modulated by estrous state during interactions with muted males. In Malone et al., we tested the idea that courtship vocalizations produced by female mice are regulated by estrous state. Adult male mice produce high rates of ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) during courtship interactions with females. It was long thought that only males produced courtship USVs, but recent studies using microphone arrays to assign USVs to individual signalers report that females produce a portion (5-18%) of total courtship USVs. The factors that regulate female courtship USV production are poorly understood. Here, we tested the idea that female courtship USV production is regulated by estrous state. To facilitate the detection of female USVs, we paired females with males that were muted for USV production via caspase-mediated ablation of midbrain neurons that are required for USV production. We report that total USVs recorded during interactions between group-housed B6 females and muted males are low and are not modulated by female estrous state. Similar results were obtained for single-housed B6 females and for single-housed outbred wild-derived female mice paired with muted males. These findings suggest either that female mice produce substantial rates of courtship USVs only when interacting with vocal male partners or that prior studies have overestimated female courtship USV production. Studies employing methods that can unambiguously assign USVs to individual signalers, regardless of inter-mouse distances, are needed to distinguish between these possibilities.Item Data from: Effects of short-term isolation on vocal and non-vocal behaviors in prairie volesMadrid, Jesus E.; Pranic, Nicole M.; Chu, Samantha; Bergstrom, Johanna J. D.; Singh, Rhea; Rabinovich, Joclin; Lopez, Kaycee Arias; Ophir, Alexander G.; Tschida, Katherine A. (2024)These files contain data supporting all results reported in Madrid, Pranic et al., 2024. In Madrid, Pranic et al., we characterized the effects of short-term (3-days) social isolation on the vocal and non-vocal social behaviors of adult prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) during same-sex and opposite-sex social interactions. Our experiments revealed that short-term isolation did not affect rates of ultrasonic vocalizations or time spent in non-aggressive social behaviors and huddling. In contrast, short-term isolation affected aggression in a sex- and context-specific manner during male-male interactions. Our findings highlight the importance of comparative work across species and the consideration of social context to understand the diverse ways in which social isolation can impact social behavior.Item A very public replication of the temporal pattern to people's regretsRichardson, Jerry; Gilovich, Thomas (Royal Society Open Science, 2023-06-21)Most people recognize that mistaken actions generally sting more than equally mistaken and consequential failures to act (Gleicher et al. 1990 Pers. Soc. Psychol. Bull. 16, 284–295 (doi:10.1177/ 0146167290162009); Kruger et al. 2005 J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 88, 725–735 (doi:10.1037/0022-3514.88.5.725); Landman 1987 Pers. Soc. Psychol. Bull. 13, 524–536 (doi:10.1177/0146167287134009)). At the same time, most people have some intuitive appreciation of Whittier’s claim that ‘For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been”’. As a result, few are surprised to learn that when people look back on their lives and identify what they regret most, they mention regrets of inaction significantly more often than regrets of action. Gilovich and Medvec (Gilovich & Medvec 1994 J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 67, 357–365 (doi:10.1037/ 0022-3514.67.3.357); Gilovich & Medvec 1995 Psychol. Rev. 102, 379–395 (doi:10.1037/0033-295X.102.2.379)) identified the overarching pattern that incorporates both intuitions: regrets of recent vintage tend to centre on mistakes of action, but long- term regrets tend to involve failures to act. We conducted a replication of Gilovich and Medvec in the field using a unique source: a new museum in Chicago devoted to psychological science. We replicated the significant interaction between action/inaction and temporal perspective, but the precise pattern of that interaction diverged from that reported earlier.Item Data from: Midbrain neurons important for the production of mouse ultrasonic vocalizations are not required for distress callsZiobro, Patryk; Woo, Yena; He, Zichen; Tschida, Katherine A. (2023)These files contain data supporting all results reported in Ziobro et al., Different vocalization types in mouse are controlled by distinct populations of midbrain neurons. In Ziobro et al., we tested whether a single population of midbrain neurons regulates the production of different vocalization types. To this end, we applied intersectional methods to selectively ablate a population of midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) neurons important for the production of ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in mice. We found that although ablation of these PAG-USV neurons blocks USV production in both males and females, these neurons are not required for the production of distress calls. Our findings suggest that distinct populations of midbrain neurons control the production of different vocalization types.Item Data from: Rates of ultrasonic vocalizations are more strongly related than acoustic features to non-vocal behaviors in mouse pupsPranic, Nicole M.; Kornbrek, Caroline; Yang, Chen; Cleland, Thomas A.; Tschida, Katherine A. (2022)These files contain data supporting all results in Pranic et al., 2022. Mouse pups produce ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in response to isolation from the nest (i.e., isolation USVs). Rates and acoustic features of isolation USVs change dramatically over the first two weeks of life, and there is also substantial variability in the rates and acoustic features of isolation USVs at a given postnatal age. The factors that contribute to within age variability in isolation USVs remain largely unknown. Here, we explore the extent to which non-vocal behaviors of mouse pups relate to the within age variability in rates and acoustic features of their USVs. We recorded non-vocal behaviors of isolated C57BL/6J mouse pups at four postnatal ages (postnatal days 5, 10, 15, and 20), measured rates of isolation USV production, and applied a combination of pre-defined acoustic feature measurements and an unsupervised machine learning-based vocal analysis method to examine USV acoustic features. When we considered different categories of non-vocal behavior, our analyses revealed that mice in all postnatal age groups produce higher rates of isolation USVs during active non-vocal behaviors than when lying still. Moreover, rates of isolation USVs are correlated with the intensity (i.e., magnitude) of non-vocal body and limb movements within a given trial. In contrast, USVs produced during different categories of nonvocal behaviors and during different intensities of non-vocal movement do not differ substantially in their acoustic features. Our findings suggest that levels of behavioral arousal contribute to within age variability in rates, but not acoustic features, of mouse isolation USVs.Item Data from: Sex- and context-dependent effects of acute isolation on vocal and non-vocal social behaviors in miceZhao, Xin; Ziobro, Patryk; Pranic, Nicole M.; Chu, Samantha; Rabinovich, Samantha; Chan, William; Zhao, Jennifer; Kornbrek, Caroline; He, Zichen; Tschida, Katherine A. (2021-07-27T19:10:47Z)The files included in this dataset include the data required to reproduce the analyses included in Zhao, Ziobro, Pranic et al., Sex- and context-dependent effects of acute isolation on vocal and non-vocal social behaviors in mice. PlosOne. Accepted