Dieter Hillert - Böcker

The Birth of Language traces the gradual evolution of human language over two million years, uncovering the intricate interplay between biological adaptations and cultural innovations. It distinguishes language from speech showing how both emerged as distinct, yet intertwined processes shaped by specialized brain networks. The book engages with the ongoing scholarly debate on language origins, examining the roles of brain architecture, social cohesion, group dynamics, and fundamental behaviors such as toolmaking.Drawing on the latest genetic research, as well as groundbreaking neurobiological discoveries, it reveals how our linguistic abilities mirror broader cognitive advances in human evolution. Evidence-based insights are woven seamlessly into a rich narrative of humanity’s intertwined cultural and biological history.Essential reading for anyone intrigued by the origins of language, The Birth of Language offers valuable perspectives for readers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology—bridging disciplines to tell the compelling story of our species’ most defining trait.

The Birth of Language traces the gradual evolution of human language over two million years, uncovering the intricate interplay between biological adaptations and cultural innovations. It distinguishes language from speech showing how both emerged as distinct, yet intertwined processes shaped by specialized brain networks. The book engages with the ongoing scholarly debate on language origins, examining the roles of brain architecture, social cohesion, group dynamics, and fundamental behaviors such as toolmaking.Drawing on the latest genetic research, as well as groundbreaking neurobiological discoveries, it reveals how our linguistic abilities mirror broader cognitive advances in human evolution. Evidence-based insights are woven seamlessly into a rich narrative of humanity’s intertwined cultural and biological history.Essential reading for anyone intrigued by the origins of language, The Birth of Language offers valuable perspectives for readers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology—bridging disciplines to tell the compelling story of our species’ most defining trait.

The Nature of Language addresses one of the most fundamental questions of mankind: how did language evolve, and what are the neurobiological and cognitive foundations  of language processing? These questions are explored from different perspectives to discuss the building blocks of language evolution and how they developed in the way they can be found in modern humans. Primarily, neural mapping methods of cognition presented in this research provide extremely valuable data about the neural circuitries that are involved in language processing. Thus, the book explores and illustrates cortical mapping in typical language patterns, but also cortical mapping in atypical populations that fail to process particular language aspects. A neurobiological stance is used to inquire about how language abilities of our species evolved to communicate for the purposes of conveying information such as ideas, emotions, goals, and humor.The evolutionary language model presented builds on the cognitive abilities of our ancestors, and it allows readers to draw a variety of expansive conclusions from that, including the idea that human language as an interface system provides the basis for consciousness.

The Nature of Language addresses one of the most fundamental questions of mankind: how did language evolve, and what are the neurobiological and cognitive foundations  of language processing? These questions are explored from different perspectives to discuss the building blocks of language evolution and how they developed in the way they can be found in modern humans. Primarily, neural mapping methods of cognition presented in this research provide extremely valuable data about the neural circuitries that are involved in language processing. Thus, the book explores and illustrates cortical mapping in typical language patterns, but also cortical mapping in atypical populations that fail to process particular language aspects. A neurobiological stance is used to inquire about how language abilities of our species evolved to communicate for the purposes of conveying information such as ideas, emotions, goals, and humor.The evolutionary language model presented builds on the cognitive abilities of our ancestors, and it allows readers to draw a variety of expansive conclusions from that, including the idea that human language as an interface system provides the basis for consciousness.

Dieses Buch stellt aktuelle Fragen der Aphasieforschung vor und analysiert gestorte Sprachprozesse auf der Grundlage psycholinguistischer Modellvorstellungen. Mit dieser Konzeption lassen sich divergierende Befunde, die sowohl bei Broca- als auch bei Wernicke-Aphasikern hinsichtlich der On- und Off-line-Verarbeitung gefunden werden, vereinbaren: Wahrend Off-line-Untersuchungen einen Vergleich zwischen interaktiven Prozessen des Experimentators und des Probanden uberprufen und daher aus methodischer Sicht einen solipsistischen Ansatz implizieren,ermoglichen zeitgebundene On-line-Untersuchungen einen Einblick in die Funktionsweise modular organisierter und dem Bewusstsein nicht direkt zuganglicher Systeme. Das Sprachsystem nimmt eine Zwitterstellung ein, indem es sowohl uber modulare als auch nicht-modulare Eigenschaften verfugt.