ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2018
Where did language come from? Precursor mechanisms in nonhuman primates.
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- Investigating the role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in language evolution: insights from comparative neuroscience.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Is song processing distinct and special in the auditory cortex?Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023Review
- Morphological evolution of language-relevant brain areas.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Auditory cortical connectivity in humans.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- The Role of the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Introspection during Verbal Communication.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Motor constellation theory: A model of infants' phonological development.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Extreme capsule is a bottleneck for ventral pathway.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2021Review
- Auditory representation of learned sound sequences in motor regions of the macaque brain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Speech-accompanying gestures are not processed by the language-processing mechanisms.Neuropsychologia · 2019Article
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Abstract
At first glance, the monkey brain looks like a smaller version of the human brain. Indeed, the anatomical and functional architecture of the cortical auditory system in monkeys is very similar to that of humans, with dual pathways segregated into a ventral and a dorsal processing stream. Yet, monkeys do not speak. Repeated attempts to pin this inability on one particular cause have failed. A closer look at the necessary components of language, according to Darwin, reveals that all of them got a significant boost during evolution from nonhuman to human primates. The vocal-articulatory system, in particular, has developed into the most sophisticated of all human sensorimotor systems with about a dozen effectors that, in combination with each other, result in an auditory communication system like no other. This sensorimotor network possesses all the ingredients of an internal model system that permits the emergence of sequence processing, as required for phonology and syntax in modern languages.
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