Macaques are often studied because their brains share many similarities with human brains. However, this study revealed an ...

So, whatever happened to the revolution? AI, they said, would spark a fundamental shift in the world order. Machine learning, they agreed, would automate the drudgery of existence, and liberate ...

What separates man from the apes? Scientists have always thought that one of the basic differences between us and our closest evolutionary cousins, chimpanzees, has been the ability to perceive and ...

Apes are capable of understanding what others are thinking – an ability once thought to be unique to humans. In a set of experiments, scientists have shown chimpanzees, orangutans and bonobos can all ...

Effective communicators understand human nature. They understand that everyone just wants to feel as though they are understood and that the people they work with are all striving towards the same ...

A dozen trained dogs had their brains scanned whilst owners delivered verbal cues, and the results suggest that dogs are trying to understand what their owners say Dogs really can understand language… ...

Song birds can be trained to understand non-language aspects of human speech, such as pitch, volume and duration of syllables. This is according to a study that shows zebra finches are even more ...

Apes don't have a spoken language, but researchers at St Andrews University have discovered that people can often understand the precise meaning of the signals they use. Peter Smith reports Humans are ...

Puppies as young as eight weeks old have the ability to understand human communication, it's claimed, whether we’re speaking to them in a baby voice or pointing at objects. Potential owners could use ...

Dogs are more capable of understanding situations from a human's point of view than has previously been recognised, according to researchers. They found dogs were four times more likely to steal food ...