{"id":32653,"date":"2016-12-14T14:16:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T22:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/macaque-monkeys-have-the-anatomy-for-human-speech-so-why-cant-they-speak"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:12:12","slug":"macaque-monkeys-have-the-anatomy-for-human-speech-so-why-cant-they-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/macaque-monkeys-have-the-anatomy-for-human-speech-so-why-cant-they-speak","title":{"rendered":"Macaque monkeys have the anatomy for human speech, so why can\u2019t they speak?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/macaque-monkeys-have-the-anatomy-for-human-speech-so-why-cant-they-speak2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Monkey-head-xray\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/macaque-monkeys-have-the-anatomy-for-human-speech-so-why-cant-they-speak2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"234\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>Researchers used X-ray videos (right) to capture and trace the movements of the different parts of a macaque\u2019s vocal anatomy \u2014 such as the tongue, lips, and larynx \u2014 during a number of orofacial behaviors. (credit: Illustration by Tecumseh Fitch, University of Austria, and image courtesy of Asif Ghazanfar, Princeton Neuroscience Institute)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>While they have a speech-ready vocal tract, primates can\u2019t speak because they lack a speech-ready brain, contrary to widespread opinion that they are limited by anatomy, researchers at Princeton University and associates have reported Dec. 9 in the open-access journal <em>Science Advances<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers reached this conclusion by first recording X-ray videos showing the movements of the different parts of a macaque\u2019s vocal anatomy \u2014 such as the tongue, lips and larynx. They then converted that data into a computer model that could predict and simulate a macaque\u2019s vocal range.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/macaque-monkeys-have-the-anatomy-for-human-speech-so-why-cant-they-speak\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/macaque-monkeys-have-the-anatomy-f...they-speak<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers used X-ray videos (right) to capture and trace the movements of the different parts of a macaque\u2019s vocal anatomy \u2014 such as the tongue, lips, and larynx \u2014 during a number of orofacial behaviors. (credit: Illustration by Tecumseh Fitch, University of Austria, and image courtesy of Asif Ghazanfar, Princeton Neuroscience Institute) While they have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49470,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32653\/revisions\/49470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}