@article {317410,
	title = {Computational Challenges of evolving the language-ready brain: 1. From Manual Action to Protosign},
	journal = {Interaction Studies},
	volume = {19},
	year = {2017},
	month = {08/2017},
	pages = {7{\textendash}21},
	abstract = {<p>This paper shows how computational modeling of the macaque brain may ground hypotheses on the brain of LCA-m (the last common ancestor of monkey and human) and elaborations thereof on the path from a mirror system for manual action to a "language-ready brain" in Homo sapiens.Keywords: Action Pattern Reorganization; Computational comparative neuroprimatology; Imitation; Language evolution; Mirror System Hypothesis; Mirror Systems; Modeling cerebellum; Speech evolution</p>
},
	author = {Arbib, Michael}
}
