The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

Specifically,ultrasonic calls emitted by young mice were recognized by their mothers’ left hemisphere and evoked maternal caring ...

overlapping auditory and parietal association cortices for reception and interpretation,and partly overlapping motor and premoto ...

approximately 750-cm^3 brain of KNM-ER 1,470 was little more than half the size of the average human brain. Together, these find ...

Cadalbert,A.,Landis,T.,Regard,M.,and Graves,R.E.(1994).Singing with and without words:Hemispheric asymmetries in motor control.J ...

Peretz,I.and Kolinsky,R.(1993).Boundaries of separability between melody and rhythm in music discrimination: A neuropsychologica ...

David W. Frayer and Chris Nicolay Abstract Morphological evidence and skeletal markers related to speech sound produc- tion are ...

then shaped and modified by the supralaryngeal vocal tract,tongue,nasal and oral chambers,and lips.These anatomical structures a ...

larynx,without a tongue,with a greatly modified palate,without opening the mouth,without hearing,and even without uttering sound ...

that Middle Paleolithic people shared structural relationships with modern humans in terms of their vocal tracts.They appear to ...

External Cranial Base Early work attempting to reconstruct linguistic abilities in fossils is represented by the now classic stu ...

A less controversial technique was introduced by Laitman,Heimbuch, and Crelin (1979) who used a direct measurement technique for ...

abstract,reversed about twenty-five years of research on vocal tract posi- tioning based on the contours of the cranial base.Sin ...

measured in humans from collections of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History who certainly had language. From these data it is ...

tive by the fact that these same three lines show trends for increased cranial capacity over time. Hypoglossal Canal Size Resear ...

observation MacLarnon (1993) and Walker (1993) contend that smaller arches may indicate an underdeveloped muscular control of br ...

vertebral canals fall within the range of modern humans.Whereas some may debate interpretation of vertebral arch size,it is evid ...

appearance of members of our genus,the external nose typical of modern humans appears. In short,substantial evidence supports th ...

dimensions of the oral chamber must be estimated and correlations made with intact anatomy.Here we use maximum palate length and ...

230 David W.Frayer and Chris Nicolay Figure 14.6 Palate proportions at M1 (palate breadth/maximum palate length) for humans and ...

modern human range.In fact,most specimens older than roughly 250,000 years before the present do not differ from the chimpanzee. ...