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The mirror brain, concepts, and language: The price of anthropogenesis

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This article presents a review of cognitive evolution and the question of the origin of language and consciousness. Questions of the genetic history of Homo sapiens are considered, along with basic concepts and their relationship to sensory experience. The questions of the location of higher functions and the organization of metarepresentations in health and pathology are discussed.

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Chernigovskaya, T.V. The mirror brain, concepts, and language: The price of anthropogenesis. Neurosci Behav Physiol 37, 293–302 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-007-0014-7

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