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How the brain got language : towards a new road map / Edited by Michael A. Arbib, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla

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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
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1 online resource (vii, 393 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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Arbib, Michael A.
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Introducing the Volume: "How the brain got language: Towards a new road map" -- 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, Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 1. From manual action to protosign -- 1. The Mirror System Hypothesis (MSH) introduced -- 2. Introducing 'computational' comparative neuroprimatology -- 3. Setting a baseline for LCA-m -- 3.1 The FARS (Fagg-Arbib-Rizzolatti-Sakata) model -- 3.2 Modeling mirror systems in action recognition -- 3.3 Flexible action patterns and their rapid reorganization -- 4. An LCA-c innovation built on LCA-m mechanisms -- 5. Varieties of imitation -- 6. From imitation to pantomime -- 7. Is the path to speech indirect?, 7.1 Some macaque premotor neurons may control vocalization -- 7.2 Case study: The role of the cerebellum in prism adaptation -- 8. Towards a new road map -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 2. Building towards neurolinguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Template Construction Grammar (TCG) model for how the human brain may support language production and comprehension -- 2.1 Modeling using schema theory -- 2.2 A model of language production for visual scene description, 2.3 A model of language comprehension for visual scene description -- 3. An evolutionary framework for language-ready pathways and processes -- 3.1 SemRep in LCA-m -- 3.2 SemRep in LCA-c -- 3.3 SemRep in the language-ready brain -- 3.4 Implications -- 4. Complex action recognition and imitation support the transition to language -- 5. Towards a new road map -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Reflections on the differential organization of mirror neuron systems for hand and mouth and their role in the evolution of communication in primates -- Introduction, and Mirroring others' actions and gestures through the motor system -- Hand and mouth: Two different mirror networks -- Processing reward and social context -- Mouth mirror access to visual information does not occur via the parietal cortex -- Facial gestural communication and the face mirror network -- Hand mouth synergies -- Hand mouth synergies for gestural communication -- Towards a new road map -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Plasticity, innateness, and the path to language in the primate brain: Comparing macaque, chimpanzee and human circuitry for visuomotor integration
Summary
"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 special issue of Interaction Studies 19:1/2 (2018)"--
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9789027260673 electronic book
9027260672 electronic book
9789027207623 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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