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Pumping for gestural origins: The well may be rather dry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2003

Rick Dale ,
Daniel C. Richardson  and
Michael J. Owren
Rick Dale*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853http://people.cornell.edu/pages/rad28
Daniel C. Richardson*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853http://people.cornell.edu/pages/rad28
Michael J. Owren*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853http://people.cornell.edu/pages/rad28
*
rad28@cornell.edu
dcr18@cornell.edu
mjo9@cornell.edu
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Abstract:

Corballis's explanation for right-handedness in humans relies heavily on the gestural protolanguage hypothesis, which he argues for by a series of “intuition pumps.” Scrutinizing the mirror system hypothesis and modern gesture as components of the argument, we find that they do not provide the desired evidence of a gestural precursor to speech.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 218 - 219
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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