A machine learning model has helped explain how the brain recognizes the meaning of communication sounds, such as animal calls or spoken words. The algorithm described in the study models how social ...

Scientists studied guinea pigs' communication to understand how the brain recognizes communication sounds regardless of accents and surrounding noise. In a paper published today in Communications ...

Two scientists studying whether animals can communicate with each other and, if so, how they do it and how humans can use artificial intelligence to understand them spoke at Aspen Ideas Festival on ...

Nonhuman animals communicate in many different ways. I've long followed the work of Professor Nicolas Mathevon and was thrilled to learn about his new book The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals ...

Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For the latter, they emit sounds in the ultrasonic range, which echo and enable ...

It’s a question that has fascinated researchers and thinkers of various traditions. Animals and humans have always interpenetrated and shaped each other’s worlds, but the project of understanding how ...

Communication is how living creatures, including humans and other animals, share information. As humans, we share information with one another in many obvious ways, such as talking, texting or writing ...

Source: Jesús Esteban San José/Pexels. As more people far too easily become alienated from the natural world in which they live, it's essential that they get out and develop a deeper appreciation for ...

As scientists use machine learning to decode the sounds of whales, dogs, and dolphins, opinions vary on how best to deploy the technology. Reading time 7 minutes Chirps, trills, growls, howls, squawks ...