Michael Arbib

List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Arbib plays a role.

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Arbib, Michael 2024 Chapter 1. Pantomime within and beyond the evolution of language Perspectives on Pantomime, Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska (eds.), pp. 16–57 | Chapter
The core of the paper is a critique of the role of pantomime in the author’s theory (the Mirror System Hypothesis, MSH, itself evolving) of the biocultural evolution that led to human brains that were “language ready” long before humans developed languages. We argue that the notion of “ad hoc”… read more