Scientists have long considered the complexity of language to be an obvious separation between humans and all other life forms on Earth. New research, however, suggests our linguistic abilities might ...

Compared to other animals, the human brain is specifically adapted to verbal communication. However, it is not clear how the abilities of 'listening to each other while speaking and communicating with ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

From Spanish and Swahili to Finnish and Filipino, over 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today. Humans are unique in that we are the only species known to use language. However, new research ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...

Can AI ever truly understand what we mean, or is it just clever imitation? A neuroscientist explains. Curious? The answer isn’t as simple as you think. Do you ever find yourself wondering if AI will ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

Researchers have made a significant discovery by inserting a human-specific gene, NOVA1, into mice, leading to notable changes in their vocal communication. The modified mice produced higher-pitched ...

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Researchers found that ChatGPT could assess social interactions in videos and images almost as accurately as humans.