Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't?
In a recent study published in Philosophical Transactions B, researchers investigated transitions in fundamental frequency (f o) vocalizations of New World monkeys. Understanding f o transitions in ...
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have discovered a brain circuit that drives vocalization and ensures that you talk only when you breathe out, and stop talking when you breathe in. The newly ...