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Environments organize the verbal brain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2014

A. Charles Catania
A. Charles Catania*
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Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD 21250. catania@umbc.edu
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Abstract

FOXP2 expression in the evolution of language derives from its role in allowing vocal articulation that is sensitive to its consequences. The discrete verbal discourse it allows must have evolved recently relative to affective features of vocal behavior such as tone of voice. Because all organ systems must have evolved in the service of behavior, attention is given to ways in which environments may have driven brain organization.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , December 2014 , pp. 550 - 551
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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