Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the U.S. research institute where she was kept. Washoe was said by her keepers to ...

Grunts, barks, screams and pants ring through Taï National Park in Cȏte d’Ivoire. Chimpanzees there combine these different calls like linguistic Legos to relay complex meanings when communicating, ...

Humans are the only species on earth known to use language. We do this by combining sounds to form words and words to form hierarchically structured sentences. The question, where this extraordinary ...

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 ...

At the centre of this discovery is the arcuate fascicle — a bundle of nerve fibres linking language areas in the brain. In humans the AF connects to the middle temporal gyrus, this connection has now ...

Researchers have found apes communicate more effectively and flexibly using gestures than they do with facial expressions and sounds, findings that may shed light on how human language developed.

Language processing in humans depends on the neuronal connection between language areas in the brain. Until recently, this language network was thought to be uniquely human. Now, in a discovery ...