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 …

Motivated behavior exhibits properties that change with experience and partially dissociate
among a number of brain structures. Here, we review evidence from rodent experiments …

Disturbances of the basal ganglia processes is heavily involved in schizophrenia.
Phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A) is a basal ganglia specific hydrolase, which plays an …

G protein‐coupled receptors (GPCRs) are intricately involved in the conversion of
extracellular feedback to intracellular responses. These specialized receptors possess a …

Behavioral adaptation and cognitive control are crucial for goal-reaching behaviors. Every
creature is ubiquitously faced with choices between behavioral alternatives. Common sense …

The gradual audiomotor evolution hypothesis is proposed as an alternative interpretation to
the auditory timing mechanisms discussed in Ackermann et al.'s article. This hypothesis …

Two of the roles assigned to the basal ganglia in spoken language parallel very well their
contribution to motor behaviour:(1) their role in sequence processing, resulting in syntax …

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 …

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