Neural substrates for string-context mutual segmentation: A path to human language

Emergence of Communication and Language

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 421-434

  Okanoya, Kazuo ^a   Merker, Bjorn ^b  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; ECOLOGICAL PRESSURE; HISTORICAL PROCESS; HUMAN LANGUAGE; LEARNING MECHANISM; LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL SUBSTRATES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 34247175486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-779-4_22     Document Type: Chapter

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