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; Benjamin Wilson

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The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language
Author(s): Michael A. Arbib¹, Francisco Aboitiz², Judith M. Burkart³, Michael Corballis⁴, Gino Coudé⁵, Erin Hecht⁶, Katja Liebal⁷, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi⁸, James Pustejovsky⁹, Shelby Putt¹⁰, Federico Rossano¹¹, Anne E. Russon¹², P. Thomas Schoenemann¹³, Uwe Seifert¹⁴, Katerina Semendeferi¹⁵, Chris Sinha¹⁶, Dietrich Stout¹⁷, Virginia Volterra¹⁸, Sławomir Wacewicz¹⁹ and Benjamin Wilson²⁰
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Affiliations: ¹ University of California at San Diego ² Universidad Católica de Chile ³ Universität Zürich ⁴ University of Auckland ⁵ Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod – CNRS ⁶ Georgia State University ⁷ Freie Universität Berlin ⁸ Kyoto University ⁹ Brandeis University ¹⁰ Indiana University ¹¹ University of California at San Diego ¹² Glendon College of York University ¹³ Indiana University ¹⁴ Hunan University ¹⁵ University of California at San Diego ¹⁶ Hunan University ¹⁷ Emory University ¹⁸ Italian National Research Council, CNR ¹⁹ Nicolaus Copernicus University ²⁰ Newcastle University
Source: Interaction Studies, Volume 19, Issue 1-2, Sept 2018, p. 370 - 387
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18013.arb
- Version of Record published : 17 Sept 2018

Abstract

We present a new road map for research on “How the Brain Got Language” that adopts an EvoDevoSocio perspective and highlights comparative neuroprimatology – the comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in extant monkeys and great apes – as providing a key grounding for hypotheses on the last common ancestor of humans and monkeys (LCA-m) and chimpanzees (LCA-c) and the processes which guided the evolution LCA-m → LCA-c → protohumans → H. sapiens. Such research constrains and is constrained by analysis of the subsequent, primarily cultural, evolution of H. sapiens which yielded cultures involving the rich use of language.

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Keyword(s): brain evolution; cultural evolution; EvoDevoSocio; language evolution; language-ready brain; neurolinguistics; neuroprimatology; primate communication; protolanguage; social interaction

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