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Prelinguistic evolution and motherese: A hypothesis on the neural substrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Francisco Aboitiz  and
Carolina G Schröter
Francisco Aboitiz*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Psiquiatría y Centro de Investigaciones Médicas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Carolina G Schröter
Affiliation:
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
*
faboitiz@puc.cl
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Abstract:

In early hominins, there possibly was high selective pressure for the development of reciprocal mother and child vocalizations such as proposed by Falk. In this context, temporoparietal-prefrontal networks that participate in tasks such as working memory and imitation may have been strongly selected for. These networks may have become the precursors of the future language areas of the human brain.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 503 - 504
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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