How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map

Table of contents
Introduction
	Introducing the Volume: “How the brain got language: Towards a new road map” • Michael A. Arbib
An Old Road Map to Draw Upon
	Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 1. From manual action to protosign • Michael A. Arbib
	Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 2. Building towards neurolinguistics • Michael A. Arbib
Starting from the Macaque
	Reflections on the differential organization of mirror neuron systems for hand and mouth and their role in the evolution of communication in primates • Gino Coudé and Pier Francesco Ferrari
	Plasticity, innateness, and the path to language in the primate brain: Comparing macaque, chimpanzee and human circuitry for visuomotor integration • Erin Hecht
	Voice, gesture and working memory in the emergence of speech • Francisco Aboitiz
Bringing in Emotion
	Relating the evolution of Music-Readiness and Language-Readiness within the context of comparative neuroprimatology • Uwe Seifert
	Why do we want to talk? Evolution of neural substrates of emotion and social cognition • Katerina Semendeferi
	Mind the gap – moving beyond the dichotomy between intentional gestures and emotional facial and vocal signals of nonhuman primates • Katja Liebal and Linda Oña
Turn-taking and Prosociality
	From sharing food to sharing information: Cooperative breeding and language evolution • Judith Burkart, Eloisa Guerreiro Martins, Fabia Miss and Yvonne Zürcher
	Social manipulation, turn-taking and cooperation in apes: Implications for the evolution of language-based interaction in humans • Federico Rossano
	Language origins: Fitness consequences, platform of trust, cooperation, and turn-taking • Sławomir Wacewicz and Przemysław Żywiczyński
Imitation, Pantomime and Develop
	The evolutionary roots of human imitation, action understanding and symbols • Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi
	Pantomime and imitation in great apes: Implications for reconstructing the evolution of language • Anne E. Russon
	From action to spoken and signed language through gesture: Some basic developmental issues for a discussion on the evolution of the human language-ready brain • Virginia Volterra, Olga Capirci, Pasquale Rinaldi and Laura Sparaci
	Praxis, symbol and language: Developmental, ecological and linguistic issues • Chris Sinha
Action, Tool Making and Language
	Archaeology and the evolutionary neuroscience of language: The technological pedagogy hypothesis • Dietrich Stout
	Tracing the evolutionary trajectory of verbal working memory with neuro-archaeology • Shelby S. Putt and Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar
	From actions to events: Communicating through language and gesture • James Pustejov
Meaning and Grammar Emerging
	From evolutionarily conserved frontal regions for sequence processing to human innovations for syntax • Benjamin Wilson and Christopher I. Petkov
	The evolution of enhanced conceptual complexity and of Broca’s area: Language preadaptations • P. Thomas Schoenemann
	Mental travels and the cognitive basis of language • Michael C. Corballis
The Road Map
	The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language • Michael A. Arbib, Francisco Aboitiz, Judith M. Burkart, Michael Corballis, Gino Coudé, Erin Hecht, Katja Liebal, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, James Pustejovsky, Shelby Putt, Federico Rossano, Anne E. Russon, P. Thomas Schoenemann, Uwe Seifert, Katerina Semendeferi, Chris Sinha, Dietrich Stout, Virginia Volterra, Sławomir Wacewicz and Benjamin Wilson
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