02807cam a2200457 i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007101600200008802000320010802000290014003500240016904000880019304200080028105000210028906000150031006000110032508200180033610000330035424500860038726400570047330000470053033600260057733700280060333800270063150400530065850502620071152010410097365000220201465000120203665000180204865000240206665000230209065000260211365000260213965000480216565000440221365000380225765000540229519583929OSt20190927151518.0170404s2017    enka     b    001 0 eng c  a  20179389137 a1017138822DNLM  a9781137540591q(alk. paper)  a1137540591q(alk. paper)  a(OCoLC)ocn969829422  aNLMbengcNLMerdadYDXdNBUdBDXdOCLCFdTXIdCNCGMdBTCTAdOCLCOdL2UdOCLCAdDLC  apcc00aQP399b.A26 201700a2017 H-20510aWV 50100a612.8 ABO2231 aAboitiz, Francisco,eauthor.12aA brain for speech :ba view from evolutionary neuroanatomy /cFrancisco Aboitiz. 1aLondon, United Kingdom :bPalgrave Macmillanc[2017]  axxiv, 505 pages :billustrations ;c22 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.0 aIntroduction : the beginning of words -- Pandora's box -- A matter of size -- Broken symmetry -- Bridging hemispheres -- A loop for speech -- Monkey brain, human brain -- Grasping mirrors -- Of birds and men -- Talking heads -- Taming ourselves -- Epilogue.  aThis book discusses evolution of the human brain, the origin of speech and language. It covers past and present perspectives on the contentious issue of the acquisition of the language capacity. Divided into two parts, this insightful work covers several characteristics of the human brain including the language-specific network, the size of the human brain, its lateralization of functions and interhemispheric integration, in particular the phonological loop. Aboitiz argues that it is the phonological loop that allowed us to increase our vocal memory capacity and to generate a shared semantic space that gave rise to modern language. The second part examines the neuroanatomy of the monkey brain, vocal learning birds like parrots, emergent evidence of vocal learning capacities in mammals, mirror neurons, and the ecological and social context in which speech evolved in our early ancestors. This book's interdisciplinary topic will appeal to scholars of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, biology and history --cBack cover. 0aBrainxEvolution. 0aSpeech. 0aNeuroanatomy.12aSpeechxphysiology.22aBrainxphysiology.22aBiological Evolution.22aLanguage Development. 7aBrainxEvolution.2fast0(OCoLC)fst00837627 7aNeuroanatomy.2fast0(OCoLC)fst01036307 7aSpeech.2fast0(OCoLC)fst01129153 7a77.50 psychophysiology.2nbc0(NL-LeOCL)07759794X