How the Brain Got Language - Towards a New Road Map.

Intro -- How the Brain Got Language - Towards a New Road Map -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introducing the Volume: "How the brain got language: Towards a new road map" -- 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 -- Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 1. From manual action to protosign -- 1. The Mirror System Hypothesis (MSH) introduced -- 2. Introducing 'computational' comparative neuroprimatology -- 3. Setting a baseline for LCA-m -- 3.1 The FARS (Fagg-Arbib-Rizzolatti-Sakata) model -- 3.2 Modeling mirror systems in action recognition -- 3.3 Flexible action patterns and their rapid reorganization -- 4. An LCA-c innovation built on LCA-m mechanisms -- 5. Varieties of imitation -- 6. From imitation to pantomime -- 7. Is the path to speech indirect? -- 7.1 Some macaque premotor neurons may control vocalization -- 7.2 Case study: The role of the cerebellum in prism adaptation -- 8. Towards a new road map -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 2. Building towards neurolinguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Template Construction Grammar (TCG) model for how the human brain may support language production and comprehension -- 2.1 Modeling using schema theory -- 2.2 A model of language production for visual scene description -- 2.3 A model of language comprehension for visual scene description -- 3. An evolutionary framework for language-ready pathways and processes -- 3.1 SemRep in LCA-m -- 3.2 SemRep in LCA-c.

3.3 SemRep in the language-ready brain -- 3.4 Implications -- 4. Complex action recognition and imitation support the transition to language -- 5. Towards a new road map -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Reflections on the differential organization of mirror neuron systems for hand and mouth and their role in the evolution of communication in primates -- Introduction -- Mirroring others' actions and gestures through the motor system -- Hand and mouth: Two different mirror networks -- Processing reward and social context -- Mouth mirror access to visual information does not occur via the parietal cortex -- Facial gestural communication and the face mirror network -- Hand mouth synergies -- Hand mouth synergies for gestural communication -- Towards a new road map -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Plasticity, innateness, and the path to language in the primate brain: Comparing macaque, chimpanzee and human circuitry for visuomotor integration -- Introduction: Comparative neuroscience, exaptation, and language -- LCA-m: Early primate adaptations for the visual control of action -- LCA-c: Hominid dorsal stream adaptations for social transmission of learned skills -- Human-specific adaptations: Integrating cognitive control and action sequencing with high-fidelity representations of action details -- The chicken or the egg: Continuity, divergence, and the environmental context for change in brain-behavior evolution -- Flexibility and environmental sensitivity -- Specificity and innateness -- Toward a new road map -- References -- Voice, gesture and working memory in the emergence of speech -- Introduction -- Anatomy of the speech circuit -- Grammar and semantics: Imaging studies -- Working memory -- From monkey to human -- Speech origins -- Descending control systems -- Hand control and the mirror neuron system -- Template construction grammar.

Towards a new road map -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Relating the evolution of Music-Readiness and Language-Readiness within the context of comparative neuroprimatology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Comparative neuroprimatology and MS/CIH -- 3. The music-readiness hypotheses, comparative neuroprimatology, and MS/CIH -- 3.1 MR-1, the rhythm-first hypothesis -- 3.2 MR-2, the combinatoriality hypothesis -- 3.3 MR-3, the socio-affect-cohesion hypothesis -- 4. Towards a new road map -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Why do we want to talk? Evolution of neural substrates of emotion and social cognition -- Introduction -- Gestural communication, language and limbic neural substrates in human and nonhuman primates -- Detection of the changing social environment and behavioral responses -- Motivation, evaluation of error, modulation -- Feelings, body and mind integration, and empathic theory of mind -- Emotion, social cognition and language evolution -- Towards a new road map -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Mind the gap - moving beyond the dichotomy between intentional gestures and emotional facial and vocal signals of nonhuman primates -- Background -- Scenarios of language evolution and the role of emotions -- Comparative approaches to language evolution -- Emotional and intentional communication in nonhuman primates -- Facial expressions -- Vocalizations -- Gestures -- How can comparative research on emotions contribute to theories of language evolution? -- References -- From sharing food to sharing information: Cooperative breeding and language evolution -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Callitrichid vocal communication -- 3. Cooperative breeding and vocal complexity? -- 4. Callitrichid communication and the mirror system hypothesis -- 5. Towards a new roadmap -- References.

Social manipulation, turn-taking and cooperation in apes: Implications for the evolution of language-based interaction in humans -- Cooperation and human communication -- Animal communication, manipulation vs. information -- Social manipulation, mind-reading, ontogenetic ritualization -- Towards a new road map -- References -- Language origins: Fitness consequences, platform of trust, cooperation, and turn-taking -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Communication: A fitness-consequences perspective -- 3. The platform of trust -- 4. Cooperation -- 4.1 The evolutionary origins of human cooperation -- 5. The platform of trust and the Mirror System Hypothesis -- 6. Turn-taking -- 6.1 Alternation -- 6.2 Synchrony (fast-paced temporal coordination) -- 6.3 Conditional relevance -- 6.4 (Egalitarian) role reversibility -- 7. Towards a new road map -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The evolutionary roots of human imitation, action understanding and symbols -- 1. Introduction: The evolutionary foundation of human bodily imitation and language -- 1.1 Imitation focusing on objects and body movements in humans and chimpanzees -- 1.2 Cultural differences of gestures in wild chimpanzees -- 1.3 Social learning via shared body sensory experiences with others -- 2. Ontogeny and mechanisms of complex imitation in humans -- 3. Understanding actions by using referential information from faces -- 4. Toward a new road map -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Pantomime and imitation in great apes: Implications for reconstructing the evolution of language -- Introduction -- Pantomime -- Semantics -- Tools, relationships, scripts -- Imitation -- Towards a new road map -- Funding -- References -- 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 -- Introduction.

1. From action to gesture and word -- 1.1 Links between early motor skills and gestures -- 1.2 Early action and gesture ''Vocabulary'' and its relationship to word comprehension and production -- 2. Representational techniques across elicited pantomime in children, communicative gestures and sign languages -- 3. Similarities between gestures and signs -- 4. Toward a new road map -- References -- Praxis, symbol and language: Developmental, ecological and linguistic issues -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From communicative signal to representational symbol -- 3. From symbol to system: The emergence of language -- 4. Niche construction: Meaning, materiality and human development -- 5. The ontogenesis of praxic action, imitation and language: Beyond affordance -- 6. Toward a new road map -- Neuro-computational subsystems and their integration -- EcoEvoDevo-Socio: A synoptic view -- Genetics and epigenetics of the language-ready brain -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Archaeology and the evolutionary neuroscience of language: The technological pedagogy hypothesis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The human technological niche -- 3. Stone tools and language evolution -- 3.1 Oldowan flake production -- 3.2 From complex action recognition and imitation to proto-language -- 3.3 Acheulean shaping -- 3.4 From proto-language to language -- 4. Conclusion: Towards a new road map -- Funding -- References -- Tracing the evolutionary trajectory of verbal working memory with neuro-archaeology -- Introduction -- Neuro-archaeological insights into the evolution of working memory -- Working memory centers activated during stone tool production -- Discussion -- Towards a new road map -- Acknowledgements -- References -- From actions to events: Communicating through language and gesture -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Communication with a common ground.

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How did humans evolve biologically so that our brains and social interactions could support language processes, and how did cultural evolution lead to the invention of languages (signed as well as spoken)? This book addresses these questions.

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