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The Structural Effects of Modality on the Rise of Symbolic Language: A Rebuttal of Evolutionary Accounts and a Laboratory Demonstration

Why does symbolic communication in humans develop primarily in an oral medium, and how do theories of language origin explain this? Non-human primates, despite their ability to learn and use symbolic signs, do not develop symbols as in oral language. This partly owes to the lack of a direct cortico-...

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Autores principales: Boucher, Victor J., Gilbert, Annie C., Rossier-Bisaillon, Antonin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6279877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30546330
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02300