Attention mechanisms and the mosaic evolution of speech
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- dc.contributor.author Martins, Pedro
- dc.contributor.author Boeckx, Cedric
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-26T07:22:40Z
- dc.date.available 2024-02-26T07:22:40Z
- dc.date.issued 2014
- dc.description.abstract There is still no categorical answer as to why humans, and no other species, have speech, or why speech is the way it is. Several purely anatomical arguments have been put forward, but they have been shown to be false, biologically implausible, or of limited scope. This perspective paper supports the idea that evolutionary theories of speech could benefit from a focus on the cognitive mechanisms that make speech possible, for which antecedents in evolutionary history and brain correlates can be found. This type of approach is part of a very recent but rapidly growing trend that has already provided crucial insights on the nature of human speech by focusing on the biological bases of vocal learning. Here we contend that a general mechanism of attention, which manifests itself not only in the visual but also in the auditory modality, might be one of the key ingredients of human speech, in addition to the mechanisms underlying vocal learning, and the pairing of facial gestures with vocalic units.
- dc.description.sponsorship The present work was made possible through a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant from the European Union (PIRG-GA-2009-256413), research funds from the Fundació Bosch i Gimpera, and a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI-2013-43823-P).
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- dc.identifier.citation Martins PT, Boeckx C. Attention mechanisms and the mosaic evolution of speech. Frontiers in psychology. 2014 Dec 16;5:1463. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01463
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01463
- dc.identifier.issn 1664-1078
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59254
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Frontiers
- dc.relation.ispartof Frontiers in psychology. 2014 Dec 16;5:1463
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/256413
- dc.rights © 2014 Martins and Boeckx. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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- dc.subject.keyword Evolution of speech
- dc.subject.keyword Attention mechanisms
- dc.subject.keyword Consonants and vowels
- dc.subject.keyword Evolution
- dc.subject.keyword Oscillatory cycles
- dc.title Attention mechanisms and the mosaic evolution of speech
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