Marmoset monkeys learn to call the same way human infants learn to babble
Thursday, May 25, 2017 - 11:02
in Psychology & Sociology
A baby's babbles start to sound like speech more quickly if they get frequent vocal feedback from adults. Princeton University researchers have found the same type of feedback speeds the vocal development of infant marmoset monkeys, in the first evidence of such learning in nonhuman primates, researchers report in Current Biology on May 25.