FeaturedNeuroscience·July 16, 2022·6 min readNew Study in Children With Language Deficits Highlights Importance of Voluntary Imagination in Language EvolutionStudy suggests the evolutionary acquisition of language was driven by primary improvements in voluntary imagination, rather than speech apparatus.Read More
FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·August 6, 2019·7 min readRecursive language and modern imagination were acquired simultaneously 70,000 years agoA mathematical model suggests a genetic mutation which extended the critical period by slowing prefrontal cortex development in two or more children 70,000 years ago was one factor for the emergence of recursive language and modern imagination.Read More
