[HTML][HTML] The mystery of language evolution

MD Hauser, C Yang, RC Berwick, I Tattersall… - Frontiers in …, 2014‏ - frontiersin.org
Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and
processes that led to change. In the last 40 years, there has been an explosion of research …

Empirical approaches to the study of language evolution

WT Fitch - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2017‏ - Springer
The study of language evolution, and human cognitive evolution more generally, has often
been ridiculed as unscientific, but in fact it differs little from many other disciplines that …

[كتاب][B] Language in our brain: The origins of a uniquely human capacity

AD Friederici - 2017‏ - books.google.com
A comprehensive account of the neurobiological basis of language, arguing that species-
specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language. Language …

Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds

AR Pfenning, E Hara, O Whitney, MV Rivas, R Wang… - Science, 2014‏ - science.org
INTRODUCTION Vocal learning, the ability to imitate sounds, is a trait that has undergone
convergent evolution in several lineages of birds and mammals, including song-learning …

Is junk DNA bunk? A critique of ENCODE

WF Doolittle - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013‏ - pnas.org
Do data from the Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project render the notion of
junk DNA obsolete? Here, I review older arguments for junk grounded in the C-value …

Bat biology, genomes, and the Bat1K project: to generate chromosome-level genomes for all living bat species

EC Teeling, SC Vernes, LM Dávalos… - Annual review of …, 2018‏ - annualreviews.org
Bats are unique among mammals, possessing some of the rarest mammalian adaptations,
including true self-powered flight, laryngeal echolocation, exceptional longevity, unique …

Brain mechanisms of acoustic communication in humans and nonhuman primates: an evolutionary perspective

H Ackermann, SR Hage, W Ziegler - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014‏ - cambridge.org
Any account of “what is special about the human brain”(Passingham 2008) must specify the
neural basis of our unique ability to produce speech and delineate how these remarkable …

Harmony in the molecular orchestra of hearing: developmental mechanisms from the ear to the brain

SJ Pyott, G Pavlinkova, EN Yamoah… - Annual review of …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Auditory processing in mammals begins in the peripheral inner ear and extends to the
auditory cortex. Sound is transduced from mechanical stimuli into electrochemical signals of …

Four principles of bio-musicology

WT Fitch - Philosophical transactions of the royal society …, 2015‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
As a species-typical trait of Homo sapiens, musicality represents a cognitively complex and
biologically grounded capacity worthy of intensive empirical investigation. Four principles …

[كتاب][B] Abnormal child and adolescent psychology

AC Israel, JW Malatras, R Wicks-Nelson - 2020‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is a comprehensive introduction to the field. It
covers theoretical and methodological foundations and examines the characteristics …