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. 2022 Sep 20;16:943888. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2022.943888

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Potential roles of touch and audition during human and mice/rat mate choice. (A) The parameters that are transmitted via differential voice features in humans (left panel, human ears) are written in yellow (right panel) whereas those that can transmit differential valence of socio-sexual touch (right panel, hands, and genitals) are highlighted in turquoise. (B) Same as (A) but for mice (upper panel). The different social cues or internal states that can be transmitted via ultrasonic vocalizations in mice are highlighted in yellow (lower left panel) whereas those that may be communicated via socio-sexual are written in turquoise (lower right panel).