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Author Arbib, Michael A.

Title How the brain got language : the mirror system hypothesis / Michael A. Arbib.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 413 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford studies in the evolution of language ; 16
Studies in the evolution of language ; 16.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents pt. 1. Setting the stage. Underneath the lampposts ; Perspectives on human languages ; Vocalization and gesture in monkey and ape ; Human brain, monkey brain and praxis ; Mirror neurons & mirror systems -- pt. 2. Developing the hypothesis. Signposts : the argument of the book revealed ; Simple & complex imitation ; Via pantomime to protosign ; Protosign and protospeech. An expanding spiral ; How languages got started ; How the child acquires language ; How languages emerge ; How languages keep changing.
Summary Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the brain evolved to make language possible, through what the text calls the Mirror System Hypothesis. The theory explains why we humans are as capable of learning sign languages as we are of learning to speak. This book shows how cultural evolution took over from biological evolution for the transition from protolanguage to fully fledged languages.
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Subject Brain -- Evolution.
Brain -- Evolution.
Brain -- Anatomy.
Brain -- Anatomy.
Language and languages -- Origin.
Language and languages -- Origin.
Mirror neurons.
Mirror neurons.
Evolutionary psychology.
Evolutionary psychology.
Neurolinguistics.
Neurolinguistics.
Macaques -- Anatomy.
Macaques -- Anatomy.
Macaques.
Anatomy, Comparative.
Anatomy, Comparative.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Arbib, Michael A. How the brain got language. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012 9780199896684 (DLC) 2011047813 (OCoLC)767825008
ISBN 9780199896691 (electronic book)
0199896690 (electronic book)
9780199896684
0199896682