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This article and video explains how recent research on bird brains could give us clues as to how human language evolved.

"As real as that daydream may seem, its path through your brain runs opposite reality. Aiming to discern discrete neural circuits, researchers have tracked electrical activity in the brains of people who alternately imagined scenes or watched videos."

A start-up, Eterni-Me, is looking at ways of using artificial intelligence to keep us alive virtually - long after we're gone. The company collects data that you've curated from Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, photos, video, location information, and even Google Glass and Fitbit devices., and processes this huge amount of information using complex artificial intelligence algorithms. Then it generates a virtual YOU, an avatar that emulates your personality and can interact with, and offer information and advice to your family and friends, even after you pass away.

Not only that, they have distiguished a language system for why certain sounds indicate what rule.

Scientists use language and logic to translate monkey sounds into English and develop linguistic rules for primate dialects. There is a mystery on Tiwai Island. A large wildlife sanctuary in Sierra Leone, the island is home to pygmy hippopotamuses, hundreds of bird species and several species of primates, including Campbell's monkeys.

@kbendernyc *originally published 09/08/2014 AT 04:45 PM EDT Ben McMahon of Melbourne, Australia, can't remember the serious car accident that left him in a coma for over a week, but what he recalled upon waking up is truly astounding. McMahon awoke from his coma with the ability to speak near-perfect Mandarin, reports .

Nothing can replace the value of face-to-face communication. In fact, it's said that over 90% of how we communicate is through nonverbal cues like gestures and facial expressions. With that said, one cannot underestimate the power of video conferencing to enable businesses to maximize the effectiveness of their communication.

Few would argue the significance of language in the evolution of the human species. Language serves many critical functions within the human experience, from keeping us safe to social engagement. While communication certainly exists in other species, the depth and complexity of the human language is second to none.

This article is interesting. It makes me theorize that birds can speak different languages, like how humans can be bilingual, trilingual, etc. I don't think animals can really understand each other, but they learn to do so in their hostile environment. My questions is this: humans are animals, so why can't we understand other animal's language like how, the video we watched in class claimed/Mrs. Stewart said, one species can understand the calls of other species? My answer is simply because we don't have to. Our environment doesn't force us to really pay attention to the signs and warnings of calls and such of predators because we are the dominant animals.

If you want your kids to learn to talk in the best possible way, a new study suggests you should ditch the baby talk and speak to them in normal sentences. The findings suggest that videos that claim to teach toddlers, or flash cards for tots, may not be the best idea.

Every time my daughter babbles mem-mem-mem or da-da-da, I get excited that this word will be the first one that makes sense outside of her 1-year-old universe. Recently at breakfast, I even took a video, hoping to document the very moment it happens. But for the past few months, as I have anxiously ...

This article gives a nice overview of how different animals can utilize vocalizations in meaningful ways (vocal mimicry), a behavior that's the precursor to human speech and language.

In April 2010, Adriano Lameira set up his video camera in front of an enclosure at Cologne Zoo in Germany. Inside was an orangutan called Tilda. There was a rumour that Tilda could whistle like a human, and Lameira, of Amsterdam University in the Netherlands, was keen to capture it on camera. The results of this experiment were shocking and led to the question "can animals talk like humans?"

This video explains that many ways that body language is equally and possibly even more important than speaking. It shows what you really mean, and it can shape you just like your speech can shape you.

This article is a short, one minute video about how a deaf rapper is able to make a music career through the use of sign language.

In this National Geographic video, scientists outfit babies and an adult with electrode caps to track their brain activity, then test the ability of their subjects to discern differences in sound. Try taking the test yourself while watching and see how you do.

This article/video shows that if you don't have a word for a color it is hard to differentiate it from others.

The text exchange was unspectacular: a friend explaining a video that had been posted by a classmate to his Snapchat feed. Jordana Narin, my 20-year-old research assistant, was half paying attention, sitting in my living room working on a project, texting between breaks. "Omg literally dying," she typed back, not missing a beat.