In:How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map:
Edited by Michael A. Arbib
[Benjamins Current Topics 112] 2020
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Table of contents
Introduction
Introducing the Volume: “How the brain got language: Towards a new road map”
Michael A. Arbib
An Old Road Map to Draw Upon
Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 1. From manual action to protosign
Michael A. Arbib
Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 2. Building towards neurolinguistics
Michael A. Arbib
Starting from the Macaque
Reflections on the differential organization of mirror neuron systems for hand and mouth and their role in the evolution of
communication in primates
Gino Coudé
Pier Francesco Ferrari
Plasticity, innateness, and the path to language in the primate brain: Comparing macaque, chimpanzee and human circuitry for visuomotor integration
Erin Hecht
Voice, gesture and working memory in the emergence of speech
Francisco Aboitiz
Bringing in Emotion
Relating the evolution of Music-Readiness and Language-Readiness within the context of comparative neuroprimatology
Uwe Seifert
Why do we want to talk? Evolution of neural substrates of emotion and social cognition
Katerina Semendeferi
Mind the gap – moving beyond the dichotomy between intentional gestures and emotional facial and vocal signals of nonhuman
primates
Katja Liebal
Linda Oña
Turn-taking and Prosociality
From sharing food to sharing information: Cooperative breeding and language evolution
Judith Burkart
Eloisa Guerreiro Martins
Fabia Miss
Yvonne Zürcher
Social manipulation, turn-taking and cooperation in apes: Implications for the evolution of language-based interaction in humans
Federico Rossano
Language origins: Fitness consequences, platform of trust, cooperation, and turn-taking
Sławomir Wacewicz
Przemysław Żywiczyński
Imitation, Pantomime and Development
The evolutionary roots of human imitation, action understanding and symbols
Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi
Pantomime and imitation in great apes: Implications for reconstructing the evolution of language
Anne E. Russon
From action to spoken and signed language through gesture: Some basic developmental issues for a discussion on the evolution of the human language-ready brain
Virginia Volterra
Olga Capirci
Pasquale Rinaldi
Laura Sparaci
Praxis, symbol and language: Developmental, ecological and linguistic issues
Chris Sinha
Action, Tool Making and Language
Archaeology and the evolutionary neuroscience of language: The technological pedagogy hypothesis
Dietrich Stout
Tracing the evolutionary trajectory of verbal working memory with neuro-archaeology
Shelby S. Putt
Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar
From actions to events: Communicating through language and gesture
James Pustejovsky
Meaning and Grammar Emerging
From evolutionarily conserved frontal regions for sequence processing to human innovations for syntax
Benjamin Wilson
Christopher I. Petkov
The evolution of enhanced conceptual complexity and of Broca’s area: Language preadaptations
P. Thomas Schoenemann
Mental travels and the cognitive basis of language
Michael C. Corballis
The Road Map
The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got
Language
Michael A. Arbib
Francisco Aboitiz
Judith M. Burkart
Michael Corballis
Gino Coudé
Erin Hecht
Katja Liebal
Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi
James Pustejovsky
Shelby Putt
Federico Rossano
Anne E. Russon
P. Thomas Schoenemann
Uwe Seifert
Katerina Semendeferi
Chris Sinha
Dietrich Stout
Virginia Volterra
Sławomir Wacewicz
Benjamin Wilson
