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A Brain for Speech

A View from Evolutionary Neuroanatomy

By: Francisco Aboitiz

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A Brain for Speech

A View from Evolutionary Neuroanatomy

By: Francisco Aboitiz

This book discusses evolution of the human brain, the origin of speech and language. It covers past and present perspectives on the contentious issue of the acquisition of the language capacity. Divided into two parts, this insightful work covers several characteristics of the human brain including the language-specific network, the size of the human brain, its lateralization of functions and interhemispheric integration, in particular the phonological loop. Aboitiz argues that it is the phonological loop that allowed us to increase our vocal memory capacity and to generate a shared semantic space that gave rise to modern language. The second part examines the neuroanatomy of the monkey brain, vocal learning birds like parrots, emergent evidence of vocal learning capacities in mammals, mirror neurons, and the ecological and social context in which speech evolved in our early ancestors. This book's interdisciplinary topic will appeal to scholars of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, biology and history.

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A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds

The Evolution of Life and Consciousness

By: Francisco Aboitiz

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A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds

The Evolution of Life and Consciousness

By: Francisco Aboitiz

A panoramic view of the evolution of life on our planet, from its origins to humanity’s future. In A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds, Francisco Aboitiz provides a brief history of life, the brain, and cognition, from the earliest living beings to our own species. The author proceeds from the basic premise that, since evolution by natural selection is the process underlying the origin of life and its evolution on earth, the brain—and thus our minds—must also be the result of biological evolution. The aim of this book is to narrate how animal bodies came to be built with their nervous systems and how our species evolved with culture, technology, language, and consciousness. The book is organized in four parts, each delving into a different aspect of evolutionary development: • Definitions lays the groundwork by discussing the principles of biological evolution and explores the definition and mechanisms of life itself. • Beginnings describes the origins of life, starting from the emergence of the first cells to the development of neurons as the building blocks for brain networks. • The Rise of Bodies and Brains examines the evolution of animals with bilateral symmetry, the emergence of chordates and vertebrates, and the expansion and diversification of the vertebrate brain. • A Singular Ape explores Homo sapiens and our species’ unique traits, such as bipedality, tool use, culture, language, communication, and consciousness. Comprehensive and deeply insightful, this book helps us understand our place in the natural world and the cosmos—as well as what the future might hold for life on earth.

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MIT Press

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026237935X

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Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex

By: Francisco Aboitiz,J. Montiel

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Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex

By: Francisco Aboitiz,J. Montiel

How could a structure as complex as the vertebrate brain develop from the simplest multicellular animals? Natural selection offers an impeccable mechanism for the gradual transformation of species, but even Darwin sometimes expressed doubts about the origin of highly complex structures. Following an approach that has been termed "developmental evolutionary genetics," this book seeks to establish a correspondence between embryological processes and the phylogenetic history of an organism.

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3540497609

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ASEAN Champions

By: Seung Ho Park,Gerardo Rivera Ungson,Jamil Paolo S. Francisco

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ASEAN Champions

By: Seung Ho Park,Gerardo Rivera Ungson,Jamil Paolo S. Francisco

This book examines successful firms operating within the ASEAN Economic Community, their reasons for success, and their role in regional integration.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107129001

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A Brain for Speech

A View from Evolutionary Neuroanatomy

By: Francisco Aboitiz

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A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds

The Evolution of Life and Consciousness

By: Francisco Aboitiz

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0262049023

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From Attention to Goal-Directed Behavior

Neurodynamical, Methodological and Clinical Trends

By: Francisco Aboitiz,Diego Cosmelli

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From Attention to Goal-Directed Behavior

Neurodynamical, Methodological and Clinical Trends

By: Francisco Aboitiz,Diego Cosmelli

Attention is a key psychological construct in the understanding of human cognition, and the target of enormous efforts to elucidate its physiological mechanisms, as the wealth of literature—both primary and secondary—attests (for recent compilations see Itti, Rees, & Tsotsos, 2005; Paletta & Rome, 2008; Posner, 2004). But in addition to asking what attention actually is, decomposing and analyzing its varieties, or delimiting its neurobiological mechanisms and effects, in this volume we want to explore attention somewhat differently. We believe that a full-fledged theory of attention must consider its workings in the context of motivated, goal-directed, and environmentally constrained organisms. That attention is related to goal-directed behavior is not news. What the contri- tions to this volume do suggest, however, is the existence of fundamental links between attention and two key processes that are crucial for adapted conduct: go- directed behavior and cognitive control. Importantly, they show that these relations can be explored at multiple levels, including neurodynamical, neurochemical, evo- tionary, and clinical aspects, and that in doing so multiple methodological challenges arise that are worth considering and pursuing. The reader will find here, therefore, a selection of contributions that range from basic mechanisms of attention at the n- ronal level to developmental aspects of cognitive control and its impairments. Another trend that will become evident is that, in different ways, the authors stress the need to understand these issues as they unfold in natural behavior (both healthy and pathological), thus arguing for a more ecological approach to these questions.

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3540705732

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Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex

By: Francisco Aboitiz,J. Montiel

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Francisco De Osuna

By: Francisco de Osuna

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Francisco De Osuna

By: Francisco de Osuna

Francisco de Osuna (c. 1492-c. 1540) Spanish Franciscan and mystic, wrote a series of maxims as a practical guide for recollection. These were arranged into a series of Spiritual Alphabets, this being the third.

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A Brain for Speech

A Brain for Speech

A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds

A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds

Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex

Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex

ASEAN Champions

ASEAN Champions

A Brain for Speech

A Brain for Speech

A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds

A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds

From Attention to Goal-Directed Behavior

From Attention to Goal-Directed Behavior

Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex

Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex

Francisco De Osuna

Francisco De Osuna

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