Computational Challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 1. From Manual Action to Protosign

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Publication Type: Journal Article
Authors: Arbib, Michael
Year of Publication: 2017
Journal: Interaction Studies
Volume: 19
Issue: 1-2
Pagination: 7–21
Date Published: 08/2017
Publication Language: eng
Abstract:

This paper shows how computational modeling of the macaque brain may ground hypotheses on the brain of LCA-m (the last common ancestor of monkey and human) and elaborations thereof on the path from a mirror system for manual action to a "language-ready brain" in Homo sapiens.Keywords: Action Pattern Reorganization; Computational comparative neuroprimatology; Imitation; Language evolution; Mirror System Hypothesis; Mirror Systems; Modeling cerebellum; Speech evolution

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