How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road MapMichael A. Arbib How did humans evolve biologically so that our brains and social interactions could support language processes, and how did cultural evolution lead to the invention of languages (signed as well as spoken)? This book addresses these questions through comparative (neuro)primatology – comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in monkeys, apes and humans – and an EvoDevoSocio framework for approaching biological and cultural evolution within a shared perspective. Each chapter provides an authoritative yet accessible review from a different discipline: linguistics (evolutionary, computational and neuro), archeology and neuroarcheology, macaque neurophysiology, comparative neuroanatomy, primate behavior, and developmental studies. These diverse perspectives are unified by having each chapter close with a section on its implications for creating a new road map for multidisciplinary research. These implications include assessment of the pluses and minuses of the Mirror System Hypothesis as an “old” road map. The cumulative road map is then presented in the concluding chapter. Originally published as a special issue of Interaction Studies 19:1/2 (2018). |
Contents
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Comparing macaque chimpanzee and human circuitry for visuomotor integration | 54 |
Voice gesture and working memory in the emergence of speech | 70 |
Relating the evolution of MusicReadiness and LanguageReadiness within the context of comparative neuroprimatology | 86 |
Why do we want to talk? Evolution of neural substrates of emotion and social cognition | 102 |
Implications for reconstructing the evolution of language | 200 |
Some basic developmental issues for a discussion on the evolution of the human languageready brain | 216 |
Developmental ecological and linguistic issues | 239 |
The technological pedagogy hypothesis | 256 |
Tracing the evolutionary trajectory of verbal working memory with neuroarchaeology | 272 |
Communicating through language and gesture | 289 |
From evolutionarily conserved frontal regions for sequence processing to human innovations for syntax | 318 |
Language preadaptations | 336 |
Mind the gap moving beyond the dichotomy between intentional gestures and emotional facial and vocal signals of nonhuman primates | 121 |
Cooperative breeding and language evolution | 136 |
Implications for the evolution of languagebased interaction in humans | 151 |
Fitness consequences platform of trust cooperation and turntaking | 167 |
The evolutionary roots of human imitation action understanding and symbols | 183 |
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