Series | SAIL
Edited book | Inclusive Linguistic Education
Chapter | Corpo, Cervello e Linguaggio: una prospettiva neuroscientifica

Corpo, Cervello e Linguaggio: una prospettiva neuroscientifica

Throughout evolution, the human motor system has acquired progressively more complex properties concerning motor learning, the hierarchical control of serial behaviour and the fluidity of motor output, despite a slow transmission system connected to the body periphery. Since evolution tends to be conservative, it would not be surprising if many of these solutions had been exploited in another area, as the development of a very sophisticated communication system, such as language was at first. The implications of this hypothesis for a renewed neuro-scientific understanding of the human language will be discussed in this paper.


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Submitted: May 27, 2020 | Published: Feb. 23, 2021 | Language: it

Keywords Phono-articulation Semantics Embodied simulation Mirror neurons Syntax Action Neural reuse Language

Copyright © 2021 Vittorio Gallese. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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