The Origin of Language: Insight from neuroethology of gestural communication in nonhuman primates

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Adrien MEGUERDITCHIAN (Eq. DéPhy)   Where: Salle des Voûtes Summary: Language is an unique communicative system involving hemispheric lateralization of the brain. To discuss the question of its origins, I will highlight the works on the communicative gestures in our primate cousins and their brain correlates. Indeed, nonhuman primates communicate mostly communicate not only with […]