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Monkey Brain, Human Brain

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How did the human language circuits originate? This chapter addresses studies performed in monkeys that have provided a comprehensive view of the large-scale organization of brain networks. Initially, these studies were restricted to the visual system, evidencing the separation of two visual pathways, a dorsal one conveying spatial and movement information, and a ventral one conveying information about object’s characteristics. A similar scaffolding was later found in the auditory system, from which the modern notion of dorsal and ventral language pathways originated. In this framework, the phonological loop is proposed to have emerged as a derivation of the dorsal auditory pathway during human evolution.

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