HOW BRAIN GOT LANGUAGE C: The Mirror System Hypothesis (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language, Band 16) - Hardcover

Arbib

 
9780199896684: HOW BRAIN GOT LANGUAGE C: The Mirror System Hypothesis (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language, Band 16)

Inhaltsangabe

Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. In this book, Michael Arbib presents the Mirror System Hypothesis, which suggests how complex imitation supported the breakthrough to pantomime, protosign (communication based on conventionalized manual gestures) and protospeech and then, through cultural evolution, to fully fledged languages.

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Michael Arbib was a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of computers and brains, and has long studied brain mechanisms underlying the visual control of action. For more than a decade he has devoted much energy to understanding the relevance of this work, and especially of mirror neurons, to the evolution of the language-ready brain.

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