Neuroscience: The faculty of language: What is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5598, 2002, Pages 1569-1579

  Hauser, Marc D ^a   Chomsky, Noam ^b   Fitch, W Tecumseh ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY;

NEUROLOGY;

LANGUAGE;

ANTHROPOLOGY; BIOLOGY; COGNITION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; IMITATION; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0037159541     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5598.1569     Document Type: Review

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