How the Brain Got Language —— The Mirror System Hypothesis

----- 大脑是如何获得语言的: 镜像系统假说

ISBN: 9780199896684 出版年：2015 页码：436 Arbib, Michael A Oxford University Press

Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. In this book, Michael Arbib presents the Mirror System Hypothesis, which suggests how complex imitation supported the breakthrough to pantomime, protosign (communication based on conventionalized manual gestures) and protospeech and then, through cultural evolution, to fully fledged languages.