Published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · View the paper (DOI)
Researchers at Duke University found that male mice carrying a genetic mutation known to affect human speech struggle with sequencing phonemes into words. The study used new statistical tools to analyze the structure of ultrasonic mouse songs, revealing a similar impact on sequence complexity as seen in humans.
Coverage from 2 institutions
- Male mice model human speech defect Duke University · Oct 20, 2016 · first to report
- Genes for speech may not be limited to humans Frontiers · Nov 15, 2016