Q&A: The interpreter

Jascha Hoffman

Nature, 2011, vol. 475, issue 7355, 173-173

Abstract: In 1973, Herbert Terrace, a psychologist at Columbia University in New York, embarked on an experiment to teach sign language to an infant chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky, after linguist Noam Chomsky. On the release of the documentary Project Nim, Terrace talks about research ethics, chimp cognition and the origins of language.

Date: 2011
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