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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arbib, Michael A., editor.

John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 112.

Benjamins current topics ; Volume 112

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain--Evolution.

Brain.

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 393 pages) : illustrations (some color).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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

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

Reflections on the differential organization of mirror neuron systems for hand and mouth and their role in the evolution of communication in primates

Introduction

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

Plasticity, innateness, and the path to language in the primate brain: Comparing macaque, chimpanzee and human circuitry for visuomotor integration

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 17, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: How the brain got language

ISBN:

9789027260673

9027260672

Publisher Number:

99985134941

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