Children at higher risk of ASD are less able to distinguish between differences in speech patterns. The findings suggest the biological mechanism of language development is less acquisitive in high-risk infants who are diagnosed with autism during toddlerhood.
Just as a baby's babbles begin to sound more like recognizable human speech if they receive frequent vocal feedback from adults, the same kind of interaction speeds up speech acquisition in marmosets, a new study reveals.
A study using male mice with a specific genetic mutation provides an innovative way to study how genes affect vocal sound sequencing.
A new study reports Zebra finches learn their songs by listening to their father's melodies.
According to a new study, adult songbirds modify their vocalizations when singing to juveniles in much the same way humans do when talking to babies.
According to a new study, dopamine is essential for correcting vocal mistakes.
Researchers have identified structural differences in parrot brains which could explain why they are able to imitate sounds and human speech so well.
Researchers explore the foundations of vocal learning.
New research suggests we can gain a better understanding of human speech production by looking at the genetics of songbirds.
Scientists say they have assembled more completely the string of genetic letters that could control how well parrots learn to imitate their owners and other sounds by using single molecule sequencing.