Allen Institute for Brain Science: Home. BBC Nature - Chimp recognises synthetic speech. 7 July 2011Last updated at 00:37 By Matt Walker Editor, BBC Nature Panzee, a chimp with a talent for words A talented chimpanzee called Panzee can recognise distorted and incomplete words spoken by a computer, scientists have discovered.
That suggests that apes may be more capable of perceiving spoken sounds than previously thought, and that the common ancestor of humans and chimps may also have had this ability. Beauty lies in the medial orbito cortex of the beholder, says scientists. By Fiona Macrae Updated: 07:49 GMT, 7 July 2011 When we say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, we may be wrong by an inch or so.
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