A baby's babbles start to sound like speech more quickly if they get frequent vocal feedback from adults. Princeton University researchers have found the same type of feedback speeds the vocal ...

Apparently unique among mammals, marmosets routinely produce dizygotic twins that exchange hematopoietic stem cells in utero, a process that leads to lifelong chimerism 1,2. As a result of this ...

Individual traits seem to drive our learning success: for instance, conscientious individuals often show higher academic performance. A group of cognitive and behavioral biologists conducted ...

Marmoset babies have a higher likelihood of survival 30 days after birth when attended by a good father, a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison implies. Image ...

As the founding director of Western Massachusetts Animal Rights Advocates (WMARA) and an alumnus of the University of Massachusetts, I also welcome the invitation to meet with Dr. Lacreuse to have ...

In speech and music, words and notes depend on each other. Humans are highly sensitive to such dependencies, but the evolutionary origins of this capacity are poorly understood. Cognitive biologists ...

Marmoset monkeys use distinctive, whistle-like “phee calls” to address specific monkeys, similar to how humans use names, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The discovery ...

Researchers eavesdropping on marmoset conversations reveal that these small monkeys have rules to govern vocal interactions among themselves -- like us. They know to wait their turn before “talking” ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. The pygmy marmoset, Cebuella pygmaea, has four trill variants in its vocal repertoire. One of these trills has a different behavioral ...

Marmoset monkeys have been found to use specific calls to name each other, a behaviour previously thought to exist only in humans, dolphins and elephants. Naming other individuals in a population is a ...

There’s a glut of awesome science coming out towards the end of this week and not much at the start, so I’m sticking the Revisited post up early (it’s usually on a Saturday) to clear the schedule ...