To understand the emergence of human higher cognition, we must understand its biological
substrate—the cerebral cortex, which considers itself the crowning achievement of evolution …

Vocal imitation in human infants and in some orders of birds relies on auditory-guided motor
learning during a sensitive period of development. It proceeds from'babbling'(in humans) …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are common, complex and heterogeneous
neurodevelopmental disorders. Cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for ASD …

INTRODUCTION Vocal learning, the ability to imitate sounds, is a trait that has undergone
convergent evolution in several lineages of birds and mammals, including song-learning …

Naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) form some of the most cooperative groups in the
animal kingdom, living in multigenerational colonies under the control of a single breeding …

Structural genomic variations represent a major driving force of evolution, and a burst of
large segmental gene duplications occurred in the human lineage during its separation from …

Because mouse models play a crucial role in biomedical research related to the human
nervous system, understanding the similarities and differences between mouse and human …

Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to
communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in …

The history of click-speaking Khoe-San, and African populations in general, remains poorly
understood. We genotyped∼ 2.3 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 220 southern …

Any account of “what is special about the human brain”(Passingham 2008) must specify the
neural basis of our unique ability to produce speech and delineate how these remarkable …