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. 2019 Jan 31;20(1):11. doi: 10.1186/s10194-019-0963-6

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Demonstration of ultrasonic vocalisation (USV) calls in an awake rat following a cortical spreading depression. Emission of USV calls in the 22–27 kHz range in adult rats indicate a negative affective state such as pain or distress. The shift in the frequency at the beginning and at the end of the ultrasonic vocalisation is the typical feature of a biological sound