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From past to present: Speech, gesture, and brain in present-day human communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2003

Spencer D. Kelly
Spencer D. Kelly*
Affiliation:
Psychology Department – Neuroscience Program, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY13346http://departments.colgate.edu/psychology/web/kelly.htm
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skelly@mail.colgate.edu
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Abstract:

This commentary presents indirect support for Corballis's claim that language evolved out of a gestural system in our evolutionary past. Specifically, it presents behavioral and neurological evidence that present-day speech and gesture continue to be tightly integrated in language production and comprehension.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 230 - 231
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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1. The N400 effect reflects the unconscious neural integration of semantic information during language comprehension (Kutas & Hillyard 1980).