“…First, language and music are built directly on top of the neural structures of mentalizing: they emerge from uniquely primate mentalizing areas such as STS, TPJ, and the prefrontal cortex. Second, mirror neurons have been highly implicated in both theories of language origin as well as language function (Gallese et al, 1996;Rizzolatti et al, 1996;Rizzolatti and Arbib, 1998;Fogassi et al, 2005;Schooler et al, 2011;Vredeveldt et al, 2011;Yonemitsu et al, 2018). Third, people with disorders that disrupt mentalizing abilities, such as autists, also show language impairments (Mitchell et al, 2006;Luyster et al, 2008;Mody and Belliveau, 2013).…”