A study examines how states of arousal and social context influence vocalization in marmoset monkeys. Unraveling how nonhuman primates produce and use vocalizations could lend insight into the ...

Of course monkeys don’t speak to each other in elaborate paragraphs, but they do communicate by vocalizing. Researchers turn to monkeys in an effort to understand some of the most basic foundations of ...

With their bright red, hairless chests and grass-grazing lifestyle, gelada monkeys are quite unusual. They are the only primate, other than humans, to primarily live on land instead of in trees, and a ...

Scans have pinpointed circuits in the monkey brain that could be precursors of those in humans for speech and language. As in humans, an area specialized for processing species-specific vocalizations ...

Female rhesus monkeys use special vocalizations to communicate with infants much like human mothers use “baby talk” or “motherese” reports a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago.

Neurobiologists give new meaning to the term 'motor mouth'. By carefully mapping neural networks in marmoset and macaque monkeys, they determined that multiple areas in the brain's frontal lobe ...

Cotton-top tamarin monkeys grew calmer after they heard music based on their own calm, friendly calls. But the monkeys became more agitated when researchers played music that contained elements of ...

The language of Old World monkeys, some of our primate cousins, may be more sophisticated than previously realized. Even so, it displays constraints that reinforce the singularity of human language, ...