@article {24948,
	title = {Complex imitation and the language-ready brain},
	journal = {Language and Cognition},
	volume = {5},
	number = {2-3},
	year = {2013},
	month = {09/2013},
	pages = {273-312},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	abstract = {<p>The present article responds to commentaries from experts in anthropology, apraxia, archeology, linguistics, neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, neuropsychology, primatology, sign language emergence and sign language neurolinguistics on the book How the brain got language: The mirror system hypothesis (Arbib 2012). The role of complex imitation is discussed, and the distinction between protolanguage and language is emphasized. Issues debated include the role of protosign in scaffolding protospeech, the interplay between biological evolution of the brain and cultural evolution of the social interactions within groups, the relations brain mechanisms for action and language, and the question of when language first emerged.</p>},
	keywords = {Aphasia, apraxia, brain; primate communication, human origins, Imitation, language evolution, Mirror neurons, mirror systems, pantomime, proposing, Protolanguage, protospeech, schema theory, Sign language},
	isbn = {(Online) 1866-9859},
	url = {http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1866980800000600},
	author = {Arbib, M.A.}
}
