learning and memory

Title: learning and memory
Category: Science & Technology
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learning and memory

The Gestural Origins of Language In this article, author Michael Corballis, discusses the evolution of the human language and it's connection to manual gestures. Throughout the article he cites many individuals that support and refute his belief of this evolution. In an attempt to create a understanding of the findings that lead to the procedural development of language. He references Alfred North Whitehead in describing the distinguishing qualities of human communication as being its ‘generativity'. …showed first 75 words of 953 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 953 total…that technology appears to be held back for a period of two million years possibly due to the use of hands gestures in communication. This would lead one to believe according to Corballis, that the H.sapiens prevailed over the Neanderthals and the homo erectus as a result of the switch from manual to vocal language that allowed them to use their hands for the manufacture of tools and weapons and their voices for instruction.

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