Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-qsmjn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-23T11:03:24.860Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Brain circuits ancient and modern

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Stephen F. Walker
Stephen F. Walker
Affiliation:
Centre for Physical and Life Sciences, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX, Englands.walker@psychology.bbk.ac.uk www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk./staff/sfw.html
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

I support the application of the “evolution as tinkering” idea to vocalization and emphasize that some of the subcortical parts of the brain circuits used for speech organs retain features common to nonprimate mammals, and in some cases to lower vertebrates, pointing up the importance of cortical evolution as suggested by MacNeilage.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 531
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)