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Action planning supplements mirror systems in language evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

Bruce Bridgeman
Bruce Bridgeman*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Social Sciences 2, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA95064http://psych.ucsc.edu/Faculty/bBridge.shtml
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bruceb@ucsc.edu
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Abstract:

Mirror systems must be supplemented by a planning capability to allow language to evolve. A capability for creating, storing, and executing plans for sequences of actions, having evolved in primates, was applied to sequences of communicatory acts. Language could exploit this already-existing capability. Further steps in language evolution may parallel steps seen in the development of modern children.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 129 - 130
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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