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    Chapter 13 : Origin and evolution of human speech : emergence from a trimodal auditory, visual and vocal network
    (2019) Michon Desbiey, Maëva; López Hernández, Vladimir; Aboitiz, Francisco
    In recent years, there have been important additions to the classical model of speech processing as originally depicted by the Broca–Wernicke model consisting of an anterior, productive region and a posterior, perceptive region, both connected via the arcuate fasciculus. The modern view implies a separation into a dorsal and a ventral pathway conveying different kinds of linguistic information, which parallels the organization of the visual system. Furthermore, this organization is highly conserved in evolution and can be seen as the neural scaffolding from which the speech networks originated. In this chapter we emphasize that the speech networks are embedded in a multimodal system encompassing audio-vocal and visuo-vocal connections, which can be referred to an ancestral audio-visuo-motor pathway present in nonhuman primates. Likewise, we propose a trimodal repertoire for speech processing and acquisition involving auditory, visual and motor representations of the basic elements of speech: phoneme, observation of mouth movements, and articulatory processes. Finally, we discuss this proposal in the context of a scenario for early speech acquisition in infants and in human evolution.
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    Dynamics of a neuromodulator: I. The role of dopaminergic signaling in goal-directed behavior
    (Springer-Verlag, 2009) Aboitiz, Francisco; Aboitiz, Francisco; Cosmelli, Diego