The shape of the human language-ready brain

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Boeckx, Cedric ^a,b   Benítez Burraco, Antonio ^c  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biolinguistics; Cognitive biology; Comparative neuroscience; Evolution of language; Globularity; Human evolution; Language ready brain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899704752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00282     Document Type: Article

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