Chimpanzee vocal signaling points to a multimodal origin of human language

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Taglialatela, Jared P ^a,b   Russell, Jamie L ^a,b   Schaeffer, Jennifer A ^b   Hopkins, William D ^b,c  

^a KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; GESTURE; LANGUAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; HUMAN;

PAN;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE;

EID: 79955440926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018852     Document Type: Article

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