Attention mechanisms and the mosaic evolution of speech

There is still no categorical answer for why humans, and no other species, have speech, or why speech is the way it is. Several purely anatomical arguments have been put forward, but they have been shown to be false, biologically implausible, or of limited scope. This perspective paper supports the...

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Main Authors: Pedro Tiago Martins, Cedric eBoeckx
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01463/full