ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2014
Vocal learning, prosody, and basal ganglia: don't underestimate their complexity.
Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Editorial: The Evolution of Rhythm Cognition: Timing in Music and Speech.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- Can Birds Perceive Rhythmic Patterns? A Review and Experiments on a Songbird and a Parrot Species.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- What Pinnipeds Have to Say about Human Speech, Music, and the Evolution of Rhythm.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2016Article
- Emotional and Interactional Prosody across Animal Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach to the Emergence of Language.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Review
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- Evolving perceptual biases for antisynchrony: a form of temporal coordination beyond synchrony.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2015Article
- Chorusing, synchrony, and the evolutionary functions of rhythm.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Ackermann et al.'s arguments in the target article need sharpening and rethinking at both mechanistic and evolutionary levels. First, the authors' evolutionary arguments are inconsistent with recent evidence concerning nonhuman animal rhythmic abilities. Second, prosodic intonation conveys much more complex linguistic information than mere emotional expression. Finally, human adults' basal ganglia have a considerably wider role in speech modulation than Ackermann et al. surmise.
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