Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is a primatologist most famous for her work with two bonobos, Kanzi and Panbanisha, investigating their apparent use of "Great Ape language" using lexigrams and computer-based keyboards. Until recently based at Georgia State University's Language Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, she has now moved to the Great Ape Trust of Des Moines, Iowa.

Savage-Rumbaugh's view of language - that it is not confined to humans and is learnable by other ape species - is very controversial within linguistics, psychology and other sciences of the brain and mind. For example, the cognitive scientist Steven Pinker strongly criticised the position of Savage-Rumbaugh and others in his award-winning "The Language Instinct", arguing that Kanzi and other non-human primates failed to grasp the fundamentals of language.

Books

Savage-Rumbaugh, E.S. 1986. Ape Language: From Conditioned Response to Symbol. New York: Columbia University Press. ASIN B000OQ1WIY

Savage-Rumbaugh, E.S., and Roger Lewin. 1996. Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind. Wiley. ISBN 047115959X

Savage-Rumbaugh, E.S., Stuart G. Shanker, and Talbot J. Taylor. 2001. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind. Oxford. ISBN 019514712X

External links

* Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue. 2004. [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/76 Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man.] Accessed online video: July 18, 2007. Monterey, California. TED Talks.
* [http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/savage-rumbaugh/ Interview with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh]
* [http://www.iowagreatapes.org/research/srumbaugh/rumbaugh.php Biographical Sketch]
* [http://myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=sue_savage_rumbaugh My Hero Project]
* [http://www.greatapetrust.org Great Ape Trust of Iowa]


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