Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...

Among all great apes, only Homo sapiens showers its infants with babbling, cooing, and high-pitched “baby talk.” A new study shows just how rare—and recent—this trait may be.

Human infants receive more directed communication than other great ape infants, indicating that it evolved alongside language.

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.

NCCR researchers Klaus Zuberbühler, Gwendolyn Wirobski (University of Neuchâtel), and Friederike Range (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna) have received a 1.4 million CHF WEAVE grant from the A...

ABSTRACT. When observing social interactions, humans rapidly and spontaneously encode events in terms of agents, patients and causal relations. This propensity can be made visible empirically with the...

Habitants discrets des forêts tropicales, les colobes olive (Procolobus verus), des signes vivant en Afrique de l'Ouest, possèdent un système de communication qu’ils combinent en séquences pouvant att...

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Alarm calls, vocal signals given by animals in response to threats, have been studied for decades. For primates, results from alarm call studieshave p…

When observing someone interact with something, humans and apes alternate attention between the two subjects. Great apes  track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a st...

The olive colobus, a discreet primate from the forests of the Ivory Coast, surprises by the richness of its vocal communication. According to a study by the University of Neuchâtel and the NCCR Evolvi...

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