What adaptations allow humans to produce and perceive speech so effortlessly? We show
that speech is supported by a largely undocumented core of structural and functional …

A number of heritable disorders impair the normal development of speech and language
processes and occur in large numbers within the general population. While candidate genes …

Crocodilians are the closest living relatives of birds and share many ecological challenges
with mammalian apex predators. They evolved perception pathways that share similarities …

Is animal culture a real entity or is it rather just in the eye of the beholder? The concept of
culture began to be increasingly used in the context of animal behaviour research around …

Background Motor learning is central to human existence, such as learning to speak or walk,
sports moves, or rehabilitation after injury. Evidence suggests that all forms of motor learning …

Neuroimaging studies have verified the important integrative role of the basal ganglia during
affective vocalizations. They, however, also point to additional regions supporting vocal …

Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) have sophisticated acoustic abilities adapted to many uses,
including both echolocation and social vocalisations. Social vocalisations are used in a wide …

Human language, music, and the complex vocal sequences of animal songs constitute ways
of sonic communication that evolved a remarkable degree of structural complexity, for which …

Early development of vocalization in humans is characterized by emerging control of
phonation, rather than of prosody or supraglottal articulation. This fact offers an opportunity …

In response to: Brain mechanisms of acoustic communication in humans and nonhuman
primates: An evolutionary perspective Abstract: Ackermann et al.'s arguments in the target …