Elephants are known for deep calls, strong family bonds, and remarkable memories. But some of their most important conversations may happen without a sound.

Scientists studying wild elephant confrontations discovered something unexpected: these animals don't just brawl or back down when competing for resources. The way they negotiate conflict reveals a ...

Our hands may do more than complement what we say. They can also help our brains process grammar. In a new neuroimaging study published in PNAS, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for ...

Wild African savannah elephants appear to do something remarkable during their frequent squabbles: they talk each other down with their bodies. A new study of two wild populations in South Africa has ...

Developmental language disorder (DLD) affects around two children in each class. It hinders their acquisition and use of language, even if they do not have other auditory, intellectual or neurological ...

Learn more about how elephants have been using non-verbal gestures to communicate with humans, the first of this complex method documented in non-primates. A point, a wave, a thumbs-up, or a nod of ...

"Gestures offer a means of visually differentiating between grammatical morphemes that differ in meaning but sound the same," says Janzen Ulbricht. Since instructional gestures can be used ...

New research shows that chimpanzees regularly communicate with each other through rapid back-and-forth gestures, similar to how humans talk. Reading time 2 minutes Chimpanzees and humans are even more ...

Hannah VanderHoeven is a Ph.D research student at Colorado State University (CSU) who holds a MS in Computer Science from CSU. As part of iSAT, Hannah works with Dr. Krishnaswamy on automatic gesture ...

Gesture use is prevalent in speech communication. I will talk about the representation of semantic information of object referents and motion events across speech and gesture in Chinese conversational ...