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Surprise: Baby Marmosets Learning to 'Talk' Do Listen to Adults (2 of 6)

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Surprise: Baby Marmosets Learning to 'Talk' Do Listen to Adults (2 of 6)

video: Sound movie of how infant marmoset calls elicit vocal responses from marmoset parents. The developing infant can use this type of contingent response to learn from adult vocal responses. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 14, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.Y. Takahashi at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, and colleagues was titled, 'The developmental dynamics of marmoset monkey vocal production.' view more 

Credit: [Credit: Daniel Y. Takahashi & Asif A. Ghazanfar]


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