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How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map
Edited by Michael A. Arbib
[Interaction Studies 19:1/2] 2018
► pp. 1–6
Introduction

Introducing a special issue

“How the brain got language: Towards a new road map”

| University of California at San Diego

The paper introduces a Special Issue of Interaction Studies which includes 21 papers based on presentations and discussion at a workshop entitled “How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map.” Unifying themes include the 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. The final article of the special issue builds on the previous papers to present “The Comparative Neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) Road Map for Research on How the Brain Got Language.”

Article outline
  • Comparative Neuroprimatology and the EvoDevoSocio Perspective
  • An old road map to draw upon
  • Starting from the macaque
  • Bringing in emotion
  • Turn-taking and prosociality
  • Imitation, pantomime and development
  • Action, tool making, and language
  • Meaning and grammar emerging
  • Acknowledgements
  • References


This article is available free of charge.

Published online: 17 September 2018
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