Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

In the first ever functional imaging study of the communicating chimpanzee brain, researchers have found that brain function in grunting and gesturing chimpanzees closely parallels that in actively ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...

Key points Great apes, including the both chimpanzee species, often use laughter-like vocalizations during play. A novel theory of laughter can help us determine if a chimp’s laughter serves the same ...