Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain : The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought / Philip Lieberman.
2002
QP399 .L535 2000
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Title
Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain : The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought / Philip Lieberman.
Author
Lieberman, Philip, author.
ISBN
9780674040229
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (240 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674040229 doi
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QP399 .L535 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.8/2
Summary
This book is an entry into the fierce current debate among psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary theorists about the nature and origins of human language. A prominent neuroscientist here takes up the Darwinian case, using data seldom considered by psycholinguists and neurolinguists to argue that human language--though more sophisticated than all other forms of animal communication--is not a qualitatively different ability from all forms of animal communication, does not require a quantum evolutionary leap to explain it, and is not unified in a single "language instinct." Using clinical evidence from speech-impaired patients, functional neuroimaging, and evolutionary biology to make his case, Philip Lieberman contends that human language is not a single separate module but a functional neurological system made up of many separate abilities. Language remains as it began, Lieberman argues: a device for coping with the world. But in a blow to human narcissism, he makes the case that this most remarkable human ability is a by-product of our remote reptilian ancestors' abilities to dodge hazards, seize opportunities, and live to see another day.
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Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Figures
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Functional Neural Systems
CHAPTER 2. Speech Production and Perception
CHAPTER 3. The Lexicon and Working Memory
CHAPTER 4. The Subcortical Basal Ganglia
CHAPTER 5. The Evolution of the Functional Language System
CHAPTER 6. Commentary
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
Figures
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Functional Neural Systems
CHAPTER 2. Speech Production and Perception
CHAPTER 3. The Lexicon and Working Memory
CHAPTER 4. The Subcortical Basal Ganglia
CHAPTER 5. The Evolution of the Functional Language System
CHAPTER 6. Commentary
Notes
References
Index