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Nim Chimpsky [1] (November 19, 1973 – March 10, 2000) was a chimpanzee used in a study to determine whether chimps could learn a human language, American Sign Language (ASL). The project was led by Herbert S. Terrace of Columbia University with linguistic analysis by psycholinguist Thomas Bever .
Project Nim is a 2011 documentary film directed by James Marsh. [3] It tells the life story of a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky, who was the center of a 1970s research project to determine whether a primate could learn to speak using American Sign Language. [4] Project Nim draws from Elizabeth Hess' book Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would be ...
Washoe's advocates responded by pointing out a number of methodological problems with Terrace's Nim study, issues later documented in Elizabeth Hess's Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human and the documentary Project Nim.
Terrace's research in Project Nim has been criticized for its research methodology and various ethical concerns, most notably, in Elizabeth Hess's Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would be Human (2008) [20] and a documentary film based on the book, Project Nim (2011). Following the project's conclusion, Nim was effectively abandoned by Terrace, who ...
In 1979, Herbert S. Terrace published the negative results of his Nim Chimpsky study, which presented evidence that Koko was mimicking her trainers. Terrace's article ignited intense debate over the ape language experiments (see "Scientific criticism" below), culminating in a 1980 "Clever Hans" conference that mocked the other researchers involved.
Westchester County prosecutors have two new suspects in a controversial 1996 double murder of an upstate millionaire that spawned five trials and an overturned conviction — but no answers.
Roger S. Fouts delivering Washoe's Eulogy. Roger S. Fouts (born June 8, 1943) is a retired American primate researcher. He was co-founder and co-director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI) in Washington, and a professor of psychology at the Central Washington University.
Bomb-making materials linked to the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans were recovered by FBI agents and local law enforcement Thursday at the suspect's residence in Houston, Texas, sources ...