C. P. H. Elemans

The paper develops a virtual reality system for studying social communication in songbirds and introduces an unsupervised song motif detector to manipulate the virtual environment based on song output.

The paper investigates how vocal signal production changed in secondary aquatic frogs, finding that sound is generated by laryngeal resonance modes rather than cavitation, with species-specific frequency ratios aiding species identification.

The paper identifies evolutionary and functional differences in superfast muscles across vertebrates, showing they evolved independently and are constrained by fundamental limits in synchronous muscle.