How the brain got language
Subtitle: the mirror system hypothesis
By: Michael A. Arbib
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780199896684
Subjects: Origin; Evolutionary psychology; Evolution; Comparative Anatomy; Neurolinguistics; Anatomy; Brain; Macaques; Language and languages; Mirror neurons
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Setting the Stage; title: Underneath the Lampposts; title: Perspectives on Human Languages; title: Vocalization and Gesture in Monkey and Ape; title: Human Brain, Monkey Brain and Praxis; title: Mirror Neurons & Mirror Systems; title: Part 2. Developing the Hypothesis; title: Signposts : The Argument of the Book Revealed; title: Simple & Complex Imitation; title: Via Pantomime to Protosign; title: Protosign and Protospeech : An Expanding Spiral; title: How Languages Got Started; title: How the Child Acquires Language; title: How Languages Emerge; title: How Languages Keep Changing.