Journal
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
Volume 98, Issue 1, Pages 40-56Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.01.006
Keywords
Broca's area; mirror neurons; syntax; Wernicke's area; working memory
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We have previously proposed that cortical auditory-vocal networks of the monkey brain can be partly homologized with language networks that participate in the phonological loop. In this paper, we suggest that other linguistic phenomena like semantic and syntactic processing also rely on the activation of transient memory networks, which can be compared to active memory networks in the primate. Consequently, short-term cortical memory ensembles that participate in language processing can be phylogenetically tracked to more simple networks present in the primate brain, which became increasingly complex in hominid evolution. This perspective is discussed in the context of two current interpretations of language origins, the mirror-system hypothesis and generativist grammar. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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