Probabilistic calls of the titi monkeys
A fascinating paper in Science Advances today looks at the way that a small platyrrhine monkey species conveys information about predators in its vocal commu...
A fascinating paper in Science Advances today looks at the way that a small platyrrhine monkey species conveys information about predators in its vocal commu...
The online magazine Sapiens has a fascinating piece by Elizabeth Svoboda looking at the ways that new languages form: “Where Do “New” Languages Come From?”
Anthropologist Barbara J. King reviews two new books on animal communication in the Washington Post: “‘Calls Beyond Our Hearing: Unlocking the Secrets of Ani...
Seems to be a theme going in the press today: The Internet is making us stupid by connecting us with the things we like.
Hannah Little describes a recent study of chimpanzees by Matthew Campbell and Frans de Waal Campbell:deWaal:2011: “The path to empathy”.
This story about monkey communication is worth a pointer:
Robot swarms programmed with genetic algorithms to “evolve” their behavior:
Darwin, in The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals, p. 222-223, referring to the muscles involved in furrowing the brow during a frown:
Wired’s Brandon Keim covers a new study by Susan Goldin-Meadow, which shows a conflict between linguistic and gestural communication strategies:
Chimpanzees use their own version of Broca's area when they communicate, according to a new PET scan study by Jared Taglialatela and colleagues. The abstrac...
Paleontologist Neil Shubin has a guest post on Pharyngula, describing his experience preparing for an appearance on The Colbert Report. Shubin is the disco...
There's a nice little article on the topic from Reuters:
Chris Chatham has an informative post up about a current paper by Michael Tomasello and Malinda Carpenter, titled "Shared Intentionality."
If you've ever noticed that kids have the same facial expressions as their parents, you're not alone. The usual explanation for this similarity is learning ...
Just taking some notes on a paper from last year by Helga Andresen, on the ways that role playing by preschool-age children can illuminate language and meta...