Introduction

Artikel in diesem Heft

1. Masthead
2. Introduction
3. Précis of How the brain got language: The Mirror System Hypothesis
4. Acquired mirroring and intentional communication in primates
5. The extended features of mirror neurons and the voluntary control of vocalization in the pathway to language
6. A research program in neuroimaging for an evolutionary theory of syntax
7. How did vocal behavior “take over” the gestural communication system?
8. The tip of the language iceberg
9. Vive la différence: Sign language and spoken language in language evolution
10. The neurobiology of sign language and the mirror system hypothesis
11. Action and language grounding in the sensorimotor cortex
12. What happens to the motor theory of perception when the motor system is damaged?
13. Where does language come from? Some reflections on the role of deictic gesture and demonstratives in the evolution of language
14. Archeology and the language-ready brain
15. Niche construction, too, unifies praxis and symbolization
16. Complex imitation and the language-ready brain