A simple-minded view is presented here on the problem of the origin of language, which dismisses any relation with hitherto unobserved specific language microcircuits in the cortex as well as with gross connectional hierarchies which are seen also in other mammals. In this view, language arises out of a capacity for spontaneous latching dynamics, which emerges when the connectivity of an extensive cortical network, which need not be hierarchical, crosses a critical phase-transition threshold.
An Uncouth Approach to Language Recursivity / Russo, E; Treves, Alessandro. - In: BIOLINGUISTICS. - ISSN 1450-3417. - 5:1-2(2011), pp. 133-150.
An Uncouth Approach to Language Recursivity
Treves, Alessandro
2011-01-01
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A simple-minded view is presented here on the problem of the origin of language, which dismisses any relation with hitherto unobserved specific language microcircuits in the cortex as well as with gross connectional hierarchies which are seen also in other mammals. In this view, language arises out of a capacity for spontaneous latching dynamics, which emerges when the connectivity of an extensive cortical network, which need not be hierarchical, crosses a critical phase-transition threshold.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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