Introduction published In: How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map
Edited by Michael A. Arbib
[Interaction Studies 19:1/2] 2018
► pp. 1–6
Introduction
Introducing a special issue
“How the brain got language: Towards a new road map”
This article is available free of charge.
Published online: 17 September 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18011.arb
https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18011.arb
Abstract
The paper introduces a Special Issue of Interaction Studies which includes 21 papers based on presentations and discussion
at a workshop entitled “How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map.” Unifying themes include the comparative study of brain,
behavior and communication in monkeys, apes and humans, and an EvoDevoSocio framework for approaching biological and cultural evolution
within a shared perspective. The final article of the special issue builds on the previous papers to present “The Comparative
Neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) Road Map for Research on How the Brain Got Language.”
Article outline
- 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
References (3)
Arbib, M. A. (2012). How the Brain Got Language: The Mirror System Hypothesis. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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