Not exact matches
Some of the results of
research into
language use by
primates bear directly on Whitehead's view of the gradual emergency of
language and of its usefulness.
The new
research, published online April 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, sheds light on the evolution of
primate communication and complex human
language, the researchers...
That same month, Congress included
language authored by Roybal - Allard in its 2016 spending bill that strongly encourages NIH to perform an ethical review of its nonhuman
primate research.
To arrive at this radical notion, Hauser draws on his own
research in social cooperation, neuroscience, and
primate behavior, as well as on the musings of philosophers, cognitive psychologists, and most important, the theories of MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who in the 1950s proposed that all humans are equipped with a universal linguistic grammar, a set of instinctive rules that underlie all
languages.
Research interests: Gestural communication in African apes;
primate behavior;
language evolution.
Take Congo for instance — I knew that many people who were doing
research with
primates, teaching them sign
language, were interested in taking these animals back to Africa.
Take Congo for instance — I knew that many people who were doing
research with
primates, teaching them sign
language, were interested in taking these animals back to Africa.