New find: Chimpanzees are capable of complex communication
Max Planck Institute researchers uncover chimpanzees combining different calls to create new meanings, similar to humans.
More social parrots have a better vocabulary
Max Planck Institute researchers find that monk parakeets’ vocal diversity is influenced by their complex social interactions.
To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin
A new study from MIT finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s language-processing network.
Whale song has structure similar to human language
Research led by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem uncovered humpback whales learn melodic sequences by tracking transitional probabilities, akin to infant language acquisition.