Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introducing the Volume 1
4. An Old Road Map to Draw Upon
5. Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain 7
6. Computational challenges of evolving the language-ready brain 22
7. Starting from the Macaque
8. Reflections on the differential organization of mirror neuron systems for hand and mouth and their role in the evolution of communication in primates 38
9. Plasticity, innateness, and the path to language in the primate brain 54
10. Voice, gesture and working memory in the emergence of speech 70
11. Bringing in Emotion
12. Relating the evolution of Music-Readiness and Language-Readiness within the context of comparative neuroprimatology 86
13. Why do we want to talk? 102
14. Mind the gap – moving beyond the dichotomy between intentional gestures and emotional facial and vocal signals of nonhuman primates 121
15. Turn-taking and Prosociality
16. From sharing food to sharing information 136
17. Social manipulation, turn-taking and cooperation in apes 151
18. Language origins 167
19. Imitation, Pantomime and Development
20. The evolutionary roots of human imitation, action understanding and symbols 183
21. Pantomime and imitation in great apes 200
22. From action to spoken and signed language through gesture 216
23. Praxis, symbol and language 239
24. Action, Tool Making and Language
25. Archaeology and the evolutionary neuroscience of language 256
26. Tracing the evolutionary trajectory of verbal working memory with neuro-archaeology 272
27. From actions to events 289
28. Meaning and Grammar Emerging
29. From evolutionarily conserved frontal regions for sequence processing to human innovations for syntax 318
30. The evolution of enhanced conceptual complexity and of Broca’s area 336
31. Mental travels and the cognitive basis of language 352
32. The Road Map
33. The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language 370
34. Index 389