03043cam a2200517 i 4500 2867 2867 19583929 OSt 20190927151518.0 170404s2017 enka b 001 0 eng c 2017938913 101713882 DNLM 9781137540591 (alk. paper) 1137540591 (alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn969829422 NLM eng NLM rda YDX NBU BDX OCLCF TXI CNCGM BTCTA OCLCO L2U OCLCA DLC pcc QP399 .A26 2017 2017 H-205 WV 501 612.8 ABO 23 Aboitiz, Francisco, author. A brain for speech : a view from evolutionary neuroanatomy / Francisco Aboitiz. London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan [2017] xxiv, 505 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Introduction : the beginning of words -- Pandora's box -- A matter of size -- Broken symmetry -- Bridging hemispheres -- A loop for speech -- Monkey brain, human brain -- Grasping mirrors -- Of birds and men -- Talking heads -- Taming ourselves -- Epilogue. This book discusses evolution of the human brain, the origin of speech and language. It covers past and present perspectives on the contentious issue of the acquisition of the language capacity. Divided into two parts, this insightful work covers several characteristics of the human brain including the language-specific network, the size of the human brain, its lateralization of functions and interhemispheric integration, in particular the phonological loop. Aboitiz argues that it is the phonological loop that allowed us to increase our vocal memory capacity and to generate a shared semantic space that gave rise to modern language. The second part examines the neuroanatomy of the monkey brain, vocal learning birds like parrots, emergent evidence of vocal learning capacities in mammals, mirror neurons, and the ecological and social context in which speech evolved in our early ancestors. This book's interdisciplinary topic will appeal to scholars of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, biology and history -- Back cover. Brain Evolution. Speech. Neuroanatomy. Speech physiology. Brain physiology. Biological Evolution. Language Development. Brain Evolution. fast (OCoLC)fst00837627 Neuroanatomy. fast (OCoLC)fst01036307 Speech. fast (OCoLC)fst01129153 77.50 psychophysiology. nbc (NL-LeOCL)07759794X 7 cbc pccadap 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg ddc STS 0 0 ddc 0 0 45/3 AIISH AIISH 2019-09-27 0 612.8 ABO 21703 2019-09-27 00:00:00 2019-09-27 STS