Asano, Rie 
ORCID: 0000-0002-6901-7885
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The evolution of hierarchical structure building capacity for language and music: a bottom-up perspective.
Primates.
TOKYO:
SPRINGER JAPAN KK.
ISSN 1610-7365
Abstract
A central property of human language is its hierarchical structure. Humans can flexibly combine elements to build a hierarchical structure expressing rich semantics. A hierarchical structure is also considered as playing a key role in many other human cognitive domains. In music, auditory-motor events are combined into hierarchical pitch and/or rhythm structure expressing affect. How did such a hierarchical structure building capacity evolve? This paper investigates this question from a bottom-up perspective based on a set of action-related components as a shared basis underlying cognitive capacities of nonhuman primates and humans. Especially, I argue that the evolution of hierarchical structure building capacity for language and music is tractable for comparative evolutionary study once we focus on the gradual elaboration of shared brain architecture: the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits for hierarchical control of goal-directed action and the dorsal pathways for hierarchical internal models. I suggest that this gradual elaboration of the action-related brain architecture in the context of vocal control and tool-making went hand in hand with amplification of working memory, and made the brain ready for hierarchical structure building in language and music.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-564963 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10329-021-00905-x | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Primates | ||||||||
| Publisher: | SPRINGER JAPAN KK | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | TOKYO | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1610-7365 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56496 |
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