Psychology

Edinburgh MSc graduate published in PNAS

Published on Tue, Dec 6th 2011, 16:12

Edinburgh MSc graduate Vera Ludwig has a new paper in PNAS...

Edinburgh MSc graduate Vera Ludwig has a new paper in PNAS demonstrating that chimpanzees have the same linkages of vision and sound thought to underly language evolution in humans.

Great work Vera!

Further information and related links

Vera Ludwig

Abstract (in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)

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