How the Brain Got Language

How the Brain Got Language: The Mirror System Hypothesis [Print Replica] [Format Kindle]

Author: Michael A. Arbib | Language: English | ISBN: B00AJIZ80K | Format: PDF, EPUB

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A stimulating review of recent thinking on language evolution along with the most complete explication to date of his mirror system hypothesis, which has been presented in several recent articles...The theoretical breadth is impressive [and it] will be accessible to readers with different backgrounds. I recommend Arbibs book to serious students of language evolution and it should be a valuable resource. (PsycCritiques)

Arbib's book copiously illustrates the interdisciplinarity of research on language evolution, drawing on data from neuroscience, etholohy, linguistics, human palaeontology and prehistoric archaeology. (Kerstin Hoge, Times Literary Supplement)

Arbib's book is well written and engaging. Especially the chapters dealing with mirror neurons and how they function are very interesting. (Fredrik Heinat, Nordic Journal of Linguistics)

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Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror System Hypothesis. Because of mirror neurons, monkeys, chimps, and humans can learn by imitation, but only "complex imitation," which humans exhibit, is powerful enough to support the breakthrough to language. This theory provides a path from the openness of manual gesture, which we share with nonhuman primates, through the complex imitation of manual skills, pantomime, protosign (communication based on conventionalized manual gestures), and finally to protospeech. The theory explains why we humans are as capable of learning sign languages as we are of learning to speak. This fascinating book shows how cultural evolution took over from biological evolution for the transition from protolanguage to fully fledged languages. The author explains how the brain mechanisms that made the original emergence of languages possible, perhaps 100,000 years ago, are still operative today in the way children acquire language, in the way that new sign languages have emerged in recent decades, and in the historical processes of language change on a time scale from decades to centuries. Though the subject is complex, this book is highly readable, providing all the necessary background in primatology, neuroscience, and linguistics to make the book accessible to a general audience.

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• Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA; àdition : 1 (14 mars 2012)
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I am not specialist or even well-read in this specific topic or area of neuroscience / mirror neuron systems. Graduate school linguistics in the mid 70's so that's about as dated as you can get. At any rate, intrigued by the discovery of mirror neuron. Arbib definitely has the creds and his book comes across as broad and comprehensive grasp of array of related disciplines. Complicated and for me a hard read. I found the speculation part tiring at times - the science is there, yes, but it all goes to - what has to be - speculation about evolution for which there is no data per se. I would put the book down and then a few days later, think to pick it up again and invariably would be re-captivated until the speculation slog wore me back down. Cycle repeats. It's worth persisting since interesting information continues through the final chapters.

His hypothesis is that mirror neuron system provides the seed for communicative "duality" - the sender makes assumption that receiver will decode to the same semantic content / the receiver assumes that his/her decode is what was intended by the sender. He creates a path from macaque monkey MNS studies through great apes (chimps, gorillas) vocal, facial and hand gestures, onto human communication - analyzing imitation and pantomime and seeing gesture as linchpin for the development of human language: in this regard, he employs data from sign language studies.

Probably impossible to gather in all relevant references but one example of glaring omission is 2006 UCLA study

First Evidence Found of Mirror Neuron’s Role in Language
Sep 21, 2006

a summary of which can be found with search on phys.org. I couldn't recall any mention of this and my search via his names index and subject index did not hit. A mysterious omssion.

Par Gregory A. Turner
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Important book. Hickok's The Myth of Mirror Neurons can be usefully consulted for an alternate perspective, and for putting the brakes on the hype. The mirror systems remain an important discovery despite being abused as a theoretical panacea.

Par Paris traveler
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