31.2707, Books: How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map: Arbib (ed.)

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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2020 21:33:19
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map: Arbib (ed.)

 


Title: How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map 
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 112  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.112 


Editor: Michael A. Arbib

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260673 Pages: 393 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260673 Pages: 393 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260673 Pages: 393 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207623 Pages: 393 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207623 Pages: 393 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207623 Pages: 393 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

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 through comparative (neuro)primatology – 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. Each chapter provides an authoritative yet accessible review from
a different discipline: linguistics (evolutionary, computational and neuro),
archeology and neuroarcheology, macaque neurophysiology, comparative
neuroanatomy, primate behavior, and developmental studies. These diverse
perspectives are unified by having each chapter close with a section on its
implications for creating a new road map for multidisciplinary research. These
implications include assessment of the pluses and minuses of the Mirror System
Hypothesis as an “old” road map. The cumulative road map is then presented in
the concluding chapter. Originally published as a special issue of
"Interaction Studies" 19:1/2 (2018).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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