How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map
Edited by Michael A. Arbib
[Benjamins Current Topics, 112] 2020. vii, 393 pp.
Michael A. Arbib
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael A. Arbib plays a role.
Subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map
Edited by Michael A. Arbib
Special issue of Interaction Studies 19:1/2 (2018) vii, 387 pp.
Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies
The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality
Edited by Michael A. Arbib and Derek Bickerton
[Benjamins Current Topics, 24] 2010. xi, 181 pp.
Subjects Evolution of language | Theoretical linguistics
Holophrasis vs Compositionality in the Emergence of Protolanguage
Edited by Michael A. Arbib and Derek Bickerton
Special issue of Interaction Studies 9:1 (2008) 184 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language
2020 Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 1. From manual action to protosign How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 7–21 | Chapter
Computational modeling of the macaque brain grounds hypotheses on the brain of LCA-m (the last common ancestor of monkey and human). Elaborations thereof provide a brain model for LCA-c (c for chimpanzee). The Mirror System Hypothesis charts further steps via imitation and pantomime to protosign… read more
2020 Introducing the Volume: “How the brain got language: Towards a new road map” How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction
This volume is 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… read more
2020 Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 2. Building towards neurolinguistics How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 22–37 | Chapter
A theory of evolving the language-ready brain requires a theory of what it is that evolved. We offer the TCG (Template Construction Grammar) model of comprehension and production of utterances to exhibit hypotheses on how utterances may link to “what language is about.” A key subsystem of TCG is… read more
2020 The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 370–387 | Chapter
We present a new road map for research on “How the Brain Got Language” that adopts an EvoDevoSocio perspective and highlights comparative neuroprimatology – the comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in extant monkeys and great apes – as providing a key grounding for hypotheses on… read more
2018 Introducing a special issue: “How the brain got language: Towards a new road map” How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction
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,… read more
2018 Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 1. From manual action to protosign How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 7–21 | Article
Computational modeling of the macaque brain grounds hypotheses on the brain of LCA-m (the last common ancestor of monkey and human). Elaborations thereof provide a brain model for LCA-c (c for chimpanzee). The Mirror System Hypothesis charts further steps via imitation and pantomime to protosign… read more
2018 Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 2. Building towards neurolinguistics How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 22–37 | Article
A theory of evolving the language-ready brain requires a theory of what it is that evolved. We offer the TCG (Template Construction Grammar) model of comprehension and production of utterances to exhibit hypotheses on how utterances may link to “what language is about.” A key subsystem of TCG is… read more
2018 The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 370–387 | Article
We present a new road map for research on “How the Brain Got Language” that adopts an EvoDevoSocio perspective and highlights comparative neuroprimatology – the comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in extant monkeys and great apes – as providing a key grounding for hypotheses… read more
2013 Evolving a bridge from praxis to language New Perspectives on the Origins of Language, Lefebvre, Claire, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen (eds.), pp. 555–578 | Article
We first address diverse criteria on what a theory of language evolution should explain, focusing on six divides: evolution did/did not yield a Universal Grammar; brain evolution is/is not important; language is to be viewed as speech or multimodal communication; language evolution is/is not best… read more
2010 Holophrasis and the protolanguage spectrum The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 153–166 | Article
Much of the debate concerning the question "Was Protolanguage Holophrastic?" assumes that protolanguage existed as a single, stable transitional form between communication systems akin to those of modern primates and human languages as we know them today. The present paper argues for a spectrum of… read more
2009 Interweaving protosign and protospeech: Further developments beyond the mirror Vocalize to Localize, Abry, Christian, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz (eds.), pp. 107–132 | Article
2008 Holophrasis and the protolanguage spectrum Holophrasis vs Compositionality in the Emergence of Protolanguage, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 154–168 | Article
Much of the debate concerning the question “Was Protolanguage Holophrastic?” assumes that protolanguage existed as a single, stable transitional form between communication systems akin to those of modern primates and human languages as we know them today. The present paper argues for a spectrum of… read more
2007 The syntactic motor system Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), pp. 5–32 | Article
The human brain has mechanisms that can support production and perception of language. We ground the evolution of these mechanisms in primate systems that support manual dexterity, especially the mirror system that integrates execution and observation of hand movements. We relate the motor theory… read more
2005 Interweaving protosign and protospeech: Further developments beyond the mirror Vocalize to Localize II, Abry, Christian, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz (eds.), pp. 145–171 | Article
We distinguish “language readiness” (biological) from “having language” (cultural) and outline a hypothesis for the evolution of the language-ready brain and language involving seven stages: S1: grasping; S2: a mirror system for grasping; S3: a simple imitation system for grasping, shared with the… read more
2005 The syntactic motor system Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), pp. 7–37 | Article
The human brain has mechanisms that can support production and perception of language. We ground the evolution of these mechanisms in primate systems that support manual dexterity, especially the mirror system that integrates execution and observation of hand movements. We relate the motor theory… read more
2002 Mirror neurons and the neural basis for learning by imitation: Computational modeling Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language, Stamenov, Maxim I. and Vittorio Gallese (eds.), pp. 343–352 | Article