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Premotor systems, language-related neurodynamics, and cetacean communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Gary Goldberg
Affiliation:
Drucker Brain Injury Center, Moss Rehab Hospital, Albert Einstein Healthcare Foundation, Philadelphia PA 19141-3099 [email protected]@aehn2.einstein.edu www.einstein.edu/phl/
Roberta Brooks
Affiliation:
Drucker Brain Injury Center, Moss Rehab Hospital, Albert Einstein Healthcare Foundation, Philadelphia PA 19141-3099 [email protected]@aehn2.einstein.edu www.einstein.edu/phl/

Abstract

The frame/content theory of speech production is restricted to output mechanisms in the target article; we suggest that these ideas might best be viewed in the context of language production proceeding as a coordinated dynamical whole. The role of the medial premotor system in generating frames matches the important role it may play in the internally dependent timing of motor acts. The proposed coevolution of cortical architectonics and language production mechanisms suggests a significant divergence between primate and cetacean species corresponding to major differences in areal differentiation trends in cerebral cortex.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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