Mental time travel and the shaping of language

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 553-560

  Corballis, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Evolution; Language; Memory; Mental time travel

Indexed keywords

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SIZE; CHIMPANZEE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVOLUTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAVANNA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH; SYMBOLISM; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 57749175492     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1491-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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