How does domestication affect the brain? This question has broad relevance. Domesticated
animals play important roles in human society, and substantial recent work has addressed …

Construction grammar is an approach to language that posits that units and structures in
language can be exhaustively described as pairings between form and meaning. These …

As proposed for the emergence of modern languages, we argue that modern uses of
languages (pragmatics) also evolved gradually in our species under the effects of human …

Metaphors, a ubiquitous feature of human language, reflect mappings from one conceptual
domain onto another. Although founded on bidirectional relations of similarity, their linguistic …

Recent research has proposed that certain aspects of psychosis, as experienced in, eg,
schizophrenia (SCZ), but also aspects of other cognitive conditions, such as autism …

Different factors seemingly account for the emergence of present-day languages in our
species. Human self-domestication has been recently invoked as one important force …

The aim of this paper is to develop further the idea that symptoms that emerge in speech and
language processing following brain damage can make a contribution to discussions of the …

Together with language, music is perhaps the most distinctive behavioral trait of the human
species. Different hypotheses have been proposed to explain why only humans perform …

The gradual emergence of syntax has been claimed to be engaged in a feedback loop with
Human Self-Domestication (HSD), both processes resulting from, and contributing to …

Together with language, music is perhaps our most distinctive behavioral trait. Following the
lead of paleolinguistic research, different hypotheses have been proposed to explain why …