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 …

Twitter evolution: converging mechanisms in birdsong and human speech

JJ Bolhuis, K Okanoya, C Scharff - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2010‏ - nature.com
Vocal imitation in human infants and in some orders of birds relies on auditory-guided motor
learning during a sensitive period of development. It proceeds from'babbling'(in humans) …

[كتاب][B] Mindsha**: A new framework for understanding human social cognition

TW Zawidzki - 2013‏ - books.google.com
A proposal that human social cognition would not have evolved without mechanisms and
practices that shape minds in ways that make them easier to interpret. In this novel account …

Declarative and procedural determinants of second languages

M Paradis - 2009‏ - torrossa.com
Declarative and Procedural. Determinants of Second Languages Page 1 S T U D IE S IN B IL IN G
U A L IS M Michel Paradis Declarative and Procedural Determinants of Second Languages john …

FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language

SE Fisher, C Scharff - Trends in Genetics, 2009‏ - cell.com
Rare mutations of the FOXP2 transcription factor gene cause a monogenic syndrome
characterized by impaired speech development and linguistic deficits. Recent genomic …

Animal consciousness: a synthetic approach

DB Edelman, AK Seth - Trends in neurosciences, 2009‏ - cell.com
Despite anecdotal evidence suggesting conscious states in a variety of non-human animals,
no systematic neuroscientific investigation of animal consciousness has yet been …

High-throughput analysis of promoter occupancy reveals direct neural targets of FOXP2, a gene mutated in speech and language disorders

SC Vernes, E Spiteri, J Nicod, M Groszer… - The American Journal of …, 2007‏ - cell.com
We previously discovered that mutations of the human FOXP2 gene cause a monogenic
communication disorder, primarily characterized by difficulties in learning to make …

[كتاب][B] Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus

A Clark, S Lappin - 2010‏ - books.google.com
This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the
Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider …

Human uniqueness: genome interactions with environment, behaviour and culture

A Varki, DH Geschwind, EE Eichler - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2008‏ - nature.com
What makes us human? Specialists in each discipline respond through the lens of their own
expertise. In fact,'anthropogeny'(explaining the origin of humans) requires a transdisciplinary …

Evolutionary origins for social vocalization in a vertebrate hindbrain–spinal compartment

AH Bass, EH Gilland, R Baker - Science, 2008‏ - science.org
The macroevolutionary events leading to neural innovations for social communication, such
as vocalization, are essentially unexplored. Many fish vocalize during female courtship and …