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Der Aufstieg der Kognition

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Komparative Studien mit Makaken und Schimpansen weisen darauf hin, wie sich der linksseitige frontotemporale linguistische Schaltkreis beim Menschen entwickelt haben könnte. Traktographische Untersuchungen verdeutlichen eine graduelle Adaption in Richtung der Verarbeitung von Lautsprache. Die Funktionen der Spiegelneuronen werden in diesem Zusammenhang diskutiert. Komparative Studien zur Vokalisation deuten darauf hin, dass die Fähigkeit, einfache rekursive hierarchische Strukturen zu berechnen, eine Eigenschaft ist, die offensichtlich unter den nicht-ausgestorbenen Arten nur der moderne Mensch besitzt. Wann der Übergang zu intermodalen neuronalen Projektionen stattgefunden hat, lässt sich schwierig bestimmen, aber der Anstieg der kranialen Kapazität beim H. erectus zeigt, dass diese Spezies bereits über sprachliche Kommunikation (z. B. Protosprache) verfügt haben könnte. Verschiedene kulturelle Stadien liefern Hinweise auf die zur Verfügung stehende Kognition und auf die möglichen sprachlichen Fähigkeiten.

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