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Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Chimpanzee calls trigger unique brain activity in humans, revealing shared vocal processing skills


https://phys.org/news/2025-12-chimpanzee-trigger-unique-brain-humans.html
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Labels: chimpanzee, human, vocalization

Thursday, 28 December 2023

Can We Decode the Language of Our Primate Cousins?

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/can-we-decode-the-language-of-our-primate-

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Saturday, 13 February 2021

Using genetic sequencing to determine if bird and mammal brains work the same


https://phys.org/news/2021-02-genetic-sequencing-bird-mammal-brains.html
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Labels: bird, mammal, vocalization
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