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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 367, Issue 1585, Pages 4-9Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0295
Keywords
action organization; macaque; chimpanzee; mirror neurons; human evolution; palaeolithic
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- AHRC [111956/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [111956/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The papers in this Special Issue examine tool use and manual gestures in primates as a window on the evolution of the human capacity for language. Neurophysiological research has supported the hypothesis of a close association between some aspects of human action organization and of language representation, in both phonology and semantics. Tool use provides an excellent experimental context to investigate analogies between action organization and linguistic syntax. Contributors report and contextualize experimental evidence from monkeys, great apes, humans and fossil hominins, and consider the nature and the extent of overlaps between the neural representations of tool use, manual gestures and linguistic processes.
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