Brain mechanisms underlying human communication

Human communication has been described as involving the coding-decoding of a conventional symbol system, which could be supported by parts of the human motor system (i.e. the “mirror neurons system”). However, this view does not explain how these conventions could develop in the...

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Main Authors: Matthijs L Noordzij, Sarah E Newman-Norlund, Jan Peter De Ruiter, Peter Hagoort, Stephen C Levinson, Ivan Toni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2009-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.09.014.2009/full