03587nam a22005535i 4500 978-1-137-54060-7 DE-He213 20210625211937.0 cr nn 008mamaa 170713s2017 xxk| s |||| 0|eng d 9781137540607 978-1-137-54060-7 10.1057/978-1-137-54060-7 doi QP351-495 QP360-360.7 JMM bicssc PSY020000 bisacsh JMM thema 612.8 23 Aboitiz, Francisco. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Brain for Speech [electronic resource] : A View from Evolutionary Neuroanatomy / by Francisco Aboitiz. 1st ed. 2017. London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. XXIV, 505 p. 22 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Introduction: The beginning of words -- 1. Pandora’s box -- 2. A matter of size -- 3. Broken symmetry -- 4. Bridging hemispheres -- 5. A loop for speech -- 6. Monkey brain, human brain -- 7. Grasping mirrors -- 8. Of birds and men -- 9. Talking heads -- 10. 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. Neuropsychology. Cognitive psychology. Biological psychology. Psycholinguistics. Historical linguistics. Neuropsychology. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y12030 Cognitive Psychology. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20060 Biological Psychology. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20020 Psycholinguistics. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/N35000 Historical Linguistics. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/N26000 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9781137540591 Printed edition: 9781349712274 Printed edition: 9781349712267 https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54060-7 ZDB-2-BSP ZDB-2-SXBP Behavioral Science and Psychology (SpringerNature-41168) Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0) (SpringerNature-43718)