Speech perception: a language-trained chimpanzee weighs in.Comments Comment on: Curr Biol. 2011 Jul 26;21(14):1210-4; PMID: 21723125

摘要

A language-trained chimpanzee is able to interpret synthetic 'auditory caricatures' as speech. Important components of human speech perception thus rely upon general auditory mechanisms that predated the evolution of spoken language