Language is a defining characteristic of the biological species Homo sapiens. But
Chomskian Universal Grammar is not what is innate about language; Universal Grammar …

Ackermann et al. provide an informative neurological road-map to primate call
communication. However, the proposed model for speech evolution inadequately integrates …

We argue that a comprehensive model of human vocal behaviour must address both
voluntary and involuntary aspects of articulate speech and non-verbal vocalizations. Within …

Empirical and experimental philosophy is generating tremendous excitement, producing
unexpected results that are challenging traditional philosophical methods. Advances in …

In many bird species, song changes with age. The mechanisms that account for such
changes are only partially understood. Common nightingales Luscinia megarhynchos …

Although there is no in-principle impediment to an EvoDevo of behavior, such an endeavor
is not as straightforward as one might think; many of the key terms and concepts used in …

Contradicting new dual-pathway models of language evolution, cortico-striatal-thalamic
circuitry disambiguate uncertainties in affective prosody and propositional linguistic content …

Research on acoustic communication and its underlying neurobiological substrates has led
to new insights about the functioning of central pattern generators (CPGs). CPG-related …

The capacity to learn and reproduce vocal sounds has evolved in phylogenetically distant
tetrapod lineages. Vocal learners in all these lineages express similar neural circuitry and …

In mammals, dopamine is considered a central neuromodulator involved in all kinds of
rewarding experiences ('common currency'hypothesis). In insects, the role of do-paminergic …