• DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2012.12.002
Corpus ID: 14945508

Evolution, brain, and the nature of language

@article{Berwick2013EvolutionBA,
  title={Evolution, brain, and the nature of language},
  author={R. Berwick and A. Friederici and Noam Chomsky and J. Bolhuis},
  journal={Trends in Cognitive Sciences},
  year={2013},
  volume={17},
  pages={89-98}
}

• R. Berwick, A. Friederici, +1 author J. Bolhuis
• Published 2013
• Psychology, Medicine
• Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Language serves as a cornerstone for human cognition, yet much about its evolution remains puzzling. Recent research on this question parallels Darwin's attempt to explain both the unity of all species and their diversity. What has emerged from this research is that the unified nature of human language arises from a shared, species-specific computational ability. This ability has identifiable correlates in the brain and has remained fixed since the origin of language approximately 100 thousand… Expand

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