Saturday, October 24, 2009

Infants able to identify humans as source of speech, monkeys as source of monkey calls


Filed under: Language acquisition

Infants as young as five months old are able to correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkeys as the source of monkey calls, psychology researchers have found. Their finding, which appears in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provides the first evidence that human infants are able to correctly match different kinds of vocalizations to different species.

Full article: EurekAlert


See also:

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>  Monkeys use ‘baby talk’ to interact with infants
>  Monkeys challenge language theory
>  Counting monkeys tick off yet another ‘human’ ability

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