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Origins and Distribution of Language

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Neuropsychology

Part of the book series: Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology ((HBNE,volume 2))

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Implicit in the title of this chapter is the promise that we will try to relate the evolutionary history of language to the current distribution of language function in the brain. Unfortunately, this is a promise we are unable to fulfill. At present there are simply too few points of contact between these two areas of limited knowledge for one to inform the other.

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Marin, O.S.M., Schwartz, M.F., Saffran, E.M. (1979). Origins and Distribution of Language. In: Gazzaniga, M.S. (eds) Neuropsychology. Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3944-1_8

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