Baboons display 'reading' skills, study suggests; Monkeys identify specific combinations of letters in words Date: April 16, 2012 Source: CNRS (Délégation Paris Michel-Ange) Summary: Learning to ...

None of the six baboons had seen words or letters before. But over a month and a half, and thousands of trials, all of them learned to distinguish words from non-words with around 75 per cent ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the use of simultaneous multisensory structured language instruction promoted better letter name and sound production, word reading, and word ...