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...
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Link: Origins of human languages
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?”
New animal communication books
Anthropologist Barbara J. King reviews two new books on animal communication in the Washington Post: “‘Calls Beyond Our Hearing: Unlocking the Secrets of Ani...
No echoing the echo chamber here
Seems to be a theme going in the press today: The Internet is making us stupid by connecting us with the things we like.
Chimpanzee yawning
Hannah Little describes a recent study of chimpanzees by Matthew Campbell and Frans de Waal Campbell:deWaal:2011: “The path to empathy”.
Monkey syntax
This story about monkey communication is worth a pointer:
Evolving swarm bots
Robot swarms programmed with genetic algorithms to “evolve” their behavior:
Quote: Darwin on the eyebrows
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:
Communication not language in the brain
Wired’s Brandon Keim covers a new study by Susan Goldin-Meadow, which shows a conflict between linguistic and gestural communication strategies:
Broca's area and chimpanzee communication
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...
Shubin on Colbert on Pharyngula
Paleontologist Neil Shubin has a guest post on Pharyngula, describing his experience preparing for an appearance on The Colbert Report. Shubin is the disco...
Chimpanzee facial expressions
There's a nice little article on the topic from Reuters:
Shared intentionality and cognition
Chris Chatham has an informative post up about a current paper by Michael Tomasello and Malinda Carpenter, titled "Shared Intentionality."
Like father, like son
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 ...
Metacommunication in roleplay
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...