News tagged with vocal communication
Baboons, infants show similar gesturing behavior, suggesting shared communication systems
Both human infants and baboons have a stronger preference for using their right hand to gesture than for a simple grasping task, supporting the hypothesis that language development, which is lateralized in the left part of ...
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Autistic mice act a lot like human patients
UCLA scientists have created a mouse model for autism that opens a window into the biological mechanisms that underlie the disease and offers a promising way to test new treatment approaches.
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Primate scream: Bonobos make most noise when mating with high ranking partners
(PhysOrg.com) -- Female bonobos are noisy bi-sexual love-makers that call most when mating with higher ranking partners, according to new research.
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Darwin's finch and the evolution of smell
Darwin's finches - some 14 related species of songbirds found on the Galapagos and Cocos Islands - will forever be enshrined in history for having planted the seeds of the theory of evolution through natural selection. Today, ...
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Prairie dogs may have the most complex language
(PhysOrg.com) -- Prairie dogs may have a vocal communication system more complex than that of dolphins, whales and non-human primates, according to a new study.
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Monkeys keep their words short, just like us
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has found that Formosan macaque monkeys prefer to keep their "words" short, using long vocalizations only occasionally.
Jan 29, 2010 |
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Eagle Owls Send Sweeter Valentines When Moon Is Full
(PhysOrg.com) -- Placing a tracking device on breeding owls with a wing span large enough to cover eight humans lined up side-by-side, is not a walk in the park. But, funded by a grant from the Spanish Ministry ...
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Brain responds to human voice in one fifth of a second
(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology researchers have found the sound of the human voice can be recognised by the brain in less than one fifth of a second.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 28, 2009 |
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House cats know what they want and how to get it from you
Anyone who has ever had cats knows how difficult it can be to get them to do anything they don't already want to do. But it seems that the house cats themselves have had distinctly less trouble getting humans ...
Jul 13, 2009 |
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