How the Brain Got Language
Towards a New Road Map
Special issue of Interaction Studies 19:1/2 (2018)
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[Interaction Studies, 19:1/2] 2018. vii, 387 pp.
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Table of Contents
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Introducing a special issue: “How the brain got language: Towards a new road map”Michael A. Arbib | pp. 1–6
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Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 1. From manual action to protosignMichael A. Arbib | pp. 7–21
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Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 2. Building towards neurolinguisticsMichael A. Arbib | pp. 22–37
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Reflections on the differential organization of mirror neuron systems for hand and mouth and their role in the evolution of communication in primatesGino Coudé and Pier Francesco Ferrari | pp. 38–53
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Plasticity, innateness, and the path to language in the primate brain: Comparing macaque, chimpanzee and human circuitry for visuomotor integrationErin Hecht | pp. 54–69
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Voice, gesture and working memory in the emergence of speechFrancisco Aboitiz | pp. 70–85
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Relating the evolution of Music-Readiness and Language-Readiness within the context of comparative neuroprimatologyUwe Seifert | pp. 86–101
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Why do we want to talk? Evolution of neural substrates of emotion and social cognitionKaterina Semendeferi | pp. 102–120
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Mind the gap – moving beyond the dichotomy between intentional gestures and emotional facial and vocal signals of nonhuman primatesKatja Liebal and Linda Oña | pp. 121–135
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From sharing food to sharing information: Cooperative breeding and language evolutionJudith Burkart, Eloisa Guerreiro Martins, Fabia Miss, and Yvonne Zürcher | pp. 136–150
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Social manipulation, turn-taking and cooperation in apes: Implications for the evolution of language-based interaction in humansFederico Rossano | pp. 151–166
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Language origins: Fitness consequences, platform of trust, cooperation, and turn-takingSławomir Wacewicz and Przemysław Żywiczyński | pp. 167–182
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The evolutionary roots of human imitation, action understanding and symbolsMasako Myowa-Yamakoshi | pp. 183–199
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Pantomime and imitation in great apes: Implications for reconstructing the evolution of languageAnne E. Russon | pp. 200–215
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From action to spoken and signed language through gesture: Some basic developmental issues for a discussion on the evolution of the human language-ready brainVirginia Volterra, Olga Capirci, Pasquale Rinaldi, and Laura Sparaci | pp. 216–238
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Praxis, symbol and language: Developmental, ecological and linguistic issuesChris Sinha | pp. 239–255
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Archaeology and the evolutionary neuroscience of language: The technological pedagogy hypothesisDietrich Stout | pp. 256–271
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Tracing the evolutionary trajectory of verbal working memory with neuro-archaeologyShelby S. Putt and Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar | pp. 272–288
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From actions to events: Communicating through language and gestureJames Pustejovsky | pp. 289–317
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From evolutionarily conserved frontal regions for sequence processing to human innovations for syntaxBenjamin Wilson and Christopher I. Petkov | pp. 318–335
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The evolution of enhanced conceptual complexity and of Broca’s area: Language preadaptationsP. Thomas Schoenemann | pp. 336–351
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Mental travels and the cognitive basis of languageMichael C. Corballis | pp. 352–369
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The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got LanguageMichael A. Arbib, Francisco Aboitiz, Judith M. Burkart, Michael Corballis, Gino Coudé, Erin Hecht, Katja Liebal, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, James Pustejovsky, Shelby Putt, Federico Rossano, Anne E. Russon, P. Thomas Schoenemann, Uwe Seifert, Katerina Semendeferi, Chris Sinha, Dietrich Stout, Virginia Volterra, Sławomir Wacewicz, and Benjamin Wilson | pp. 370–387
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