Symbolic communication in the form of language underlies our unique ability to reason—or so the conventional wisdom holds. A new study published today in Science, though, ...

They use gestures, vocalizations, and even some rudimentary symbolic communication. However, their vocal anatomy is less flexible, and their cognitive capacities for syntactic and abstract ...

A study showed that like humans, chimps gesture when communicating. Aug. 30, 2007 — -- Gesturing is one of the oldest forms of human communication, and now researchers have discovered that ...

Political, Cultural and Technological Challenges Edited by Tim Kuhn, associate professor of communication Hampton Press “Matters of Communication: Political, Cultural and Technological Challenges” is ...

“There's one set of researchers that's keen on finding out whether animals can engage in symbolic communication and another set that says, ‘That is anthropomorphizing.

A set of Stone Age artifacts have revealed evidence of advanced cognitive and symbolic behavior among prehistoric humans, a study reports. In the study, published in the journal Archaeological and ...