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Speech as a breakthrough signaling resource in the cognitive evolution of biological complex adaptive systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2014

Tobias A. Mattei
Tobias A. Mattei*
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Department of Neurosurgery – Brain & Spine Center / InvisionHealth, Buffalo, NY 14221. tobiasmattei@yahoo.com http://www.invisionhealth.com/providers/neurosurgery/tobias-mattei-md/
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Abstract

In self-adapting dynamical systems, a significant improvement in the signaling flow among agents constitutes one of the most powerful triggering events for the emergence of new complex behaviors. Ackermann and colleagues' comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the brain structures involved in acoustic communication provides further evidence of the essential role which speech, as a breakthrough signaling resource, has played in the evolutionary development of human cognition viewed from the standpoint of complex adaptive system analysis.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , December 2014 , pp. 563 - 564
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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