Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

Human reading looks so ordinary that it is easy to treat it as the default way brains extract meaning from marks. Yet when I look at what animals can do with symbols, numbers, and sounds, the picture ...

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is slated to be a universal animal language translator, thus you can speak with your favorite pet, such as a lovable dog. In today’s column, I explore a touted ...

Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do.

The way sperm whales communicate may be more similar to human language than previously thought. The acoustic properties of whale calls resemble vowels, a defining feature of human language, according ...

MONTREAL (AP) — Peeps trickle out of a soundproof chamber as its door opens. Female zebra finches are chattering away inside the microphone-lined box. The laboratory room sounds like a chorus of ...

Some animals communicate at volumes that far exceed what humans can tolerate. From powerful vocal calls to thunderous natural ...

Anna Jon-And receives funding from from the Swedish Research Council and has received funding from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Johan Lind has received funding from the Swedish Research ...