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On the origins of human speech: language as an internal trigger of the reward system
2025-07-08
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<p>This article proposes a neuroevolutionary model of language origins in which the human-specific ability to experience intrinsic reward from symbolic vocal behavior emerged as a major innovation, building upon pre-existing communicative vocalizations found in non-human primates. We suggest that, while vocal communication served essential social and emotional functions in early hominins, a neurobiological shift o...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1bdcc94e-83f5-5388-b84a-925534d75c27
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/uchx6_v2