WHAT HAPPENED TO HOMO-HABILIS - (LANGUAGE AND MIRROR NEURONS)

Authors
RIZZOLATTI G
Citation
G. Rizzolatti, WHAT HAPPENED TO HOMO-HABILIS - (LANGUAGE AND MIRROR NEURONS), Behavioral and brain sciences, 21(4), 1998, pp. 527-528
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Biological",Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral and brain sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
21
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
527 - 528
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1998)21:4<527:WHTH-(>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
The evolutionary continuity between the prespeech functions of premoto r cortex and its new linguistic functions, the main thesis of MacNeila ge's target article, is confirmed by the recent discovery of ''mirror' ' neurons in monkeys and a corresponding action-observation/action-exe cution matching system in humans. Physiological data (and other consid erations) appear to indicate, however, that brachiomanual gestures pla yed a greater role in language evolution than MacNeilage would like to admit.