When researchers tested a macaque monkey with the same audio material, its brain processed the acoustic features but couldn’t ...

Thus, this region does not merely process raw sounds, but categorizes pitch accents to extract meaning. This ability to interpret prosody is unique to humans. Experiments conducted on macaques have ...

The brain treated pitch accents – the slight variations in tone that change meaning in spoken language – separately from the sounds that make up words. The study revealed that, despite the natural ...

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When researchers tested a macaque monkey with the same audio material, its brain processed the acoustic features but couldn’t categorize pitch accents as meaningful units. This suggests our ability to ...