Connect to these sites:
Primate Language Research Center, GSU
Homepage of Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Review of Savage-Rumbaugh's book on Kanzibr
Article on chimpanzee language debate
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The language Research Center, dedicated in 1981, is Georgia State University's primate research center. It began with the LANA Project, in which Duane Rumbaugh studied a chimpanzee's ability to communicate with a computer keyboard that had symbols rather than letters.
There are several ongoing research programs at the center. The language acquisition program studies how primates learn language and communicate. It involves several species of apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans). Professor Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has been working on a number of research studies, including the one wit Kanzi, a bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee. Her book [Kanzi: the Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind] (written with Roger Lewin and published in 1994 by Wiley) reviews much of her research at the center. |
To find out more about Primate Language Research Center,
Connect to these sites:
Primate Language Research Center, GSU
Homepage of Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Review of Savage-Rumbaugh's book on Kanzibr
Article on chimpanzee language debate
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