An increasingly popular animal model for studying the neural basis of social behavior,
cognition, and communication is the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). Interest in this …

Marmosets display remarkable vocal motor abilities. Macaques do not. What is it about the
marmoset brain that enables its skill in the vocal domain? We examined the cortical control …

Highlights•Comparison of vocal individuality between life-history stages allows for
identification of selection pressures and potential strategic use by senders.•Vocal …

Urban foresters are addressing the challenge of urban biodiversity loss through
management plans in the context of rapid urbanization. Protecting the integrity of the urban …

Vocal communication is essential for social behaviors in humans and non-human primates.
While the frontal cortex is crucial to human speech production, its role in vocal production in …

With their highly social nature and complex vocal communication system, marmosets are
important models for comparative studies of vocal communication and, eventually, language …

Summary Human speech shares a 3–8-Hz theta rhythm across all languages [1–3].
According to the frame/content theory of speech evolution, this rhythm corresponds to …

Auditory dorsal and ventral pathways in the human brain play important roles in supporting
speech and language processing. However, the evolutionary root of the dual auditory …

Human language follows statistical regularities or linguistic laws. For instance, Zipf's law of
brevity states that the more frequently a word is used, the shorter it tends to be. All human …

Many animal species depend on sound to communicate with conspecifics. However, human‐
generated (anthropogenic) noise may mask acoustic signals and so disrupt behavior …