{"id":756,"date":"2003-07-08T03:56:31","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T03:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:35","slug":"monkeys-match-mien-and-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"monkeys match mien and meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In yet another example of how monkeylike humans  are (or how humanlike monkeys are), monkeys can link sounds to specific  facial expressions, report researchers in the June 26 <em>Nature.<\/em> Rhesus  monkeys communicate using their faces and voices. Among their most  common sounds are friendly &#8220;coo&#8221; and antagonistic &#8220;threat&#8221; calls, and  each call is accompanied by a distinct facial expression. In their  experiment, Asif A. Ghazanfar  and Nikos K. Logothetis  of the Max  Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics  showed adult rhesus monkeys  two side-by-side silent videos of threat and coo facial expressions.  When they played the sound of the call, more than 65 percent of the  monkeys looked at the correct matching face without any training. The  scientists believe this ability is an evolutionary precursor to our own  capacity to match spoken words with particular facial expressions,  necessary for speech perception. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 7\/08\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another example of how monkeylike humans are (or how humanlike monkeys are), monkeys can link sounds to specific facial expressions, report researchers in the June 26 Nature. Rhesus monkeys communicate using their faces and voices. Among their most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=756\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}