Screen LibraryHow the brain got language : the mirror system hypothesis /
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford studies in the evolution of language ;
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http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=74d10e4c58fe40739cabe0497c5ada31 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvii, 413 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780199896691 |
| Index Number: | QP399 |
| CLC: | R338 |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Setting the stage. Underneath the lampposts ; Perspectives on human languages ; Vocalization and gesture in monkey and ape ; Human brain, monkey brain and praxis ; Mirror neurons & mirror systems -- pt. 2. Developing the hypothesis. Signposts : the argument of the book revealed ; Simple & complex imitation ; Via pantomime to protosign ; Protosign and protospeech. An expanding spiral ; How languages got started ; How the child acquires language ; How languages emerge ; How languages keep changing. |