Language deficits in schizophrenia and autism as related oscillatory connectomopathies: An evolutionary account

Murphy, Elliot; Benítez‐Burraco, Antonio

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.07.029

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“…On the other hand, syntactic, semantic and phonological computations have been decomposed to a sufficiently generic level, permitting a range of brain-language linking hypotheses (e.g. Murphy 2016;2018a;Murphy & Benítez-Burraco 2017;Grimaldi 2018). This internalist focus on the mental faculty of language (Berwick 2017) is in stark contrast to the externalist focus on the output of language, such as speech and communication.…”

Section: Why Is Gamora?: Searching For Minimalism/communication Compamentioning

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Language design and communicative competence: The minimalist perspective

Murphy

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In the Minimalist Program, the place of linguistic communication in language evolution and design is clear: It is assumed to be secondary to internalisation. I will defend this position against its critics, and maintain that natural selection played a more crucial role in selecting features of externalization and communication than in developing the computational system of language, following some core insights of Minimalism. The lack of communicative advantages to many core syntactic processes supports the Minimalist view of language use. Alongside the computational system, human language exhibits ostensive-inferential communication via open-ended combinatorial productivity, and I will explore how this system is compatible with -and does not preclude -a Minimalist model of the language system.

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Section: Why Is Gamora?: Searching For Minimalism/communication Compamentioning

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Language design and communicative competence: The minimalist perspective

Murphy

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…Their opposed natures can be tracked from brain structure and developmental paths and functions, including cognitive abilities [Crespi and Badcock, 2008]. We have previously described how SZ and ASD patients process language differently and exhibit distinctive and specific oscillatory profiles when computing language [Murphy and Benítez-Burraco, 2016b]. Similarly to SZ, language deficits in ASD can be linked to many changes that occurred during our speciation.…”

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Schizophrenia and Human Self-Domestication: An Evolutionary Linguistics Approach

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Schizophrenia (SZ) is a pervasive neurodevelopmental disorder that entails social and cognitive deficits, including marked language problems. Its complex multifactorial etiopathogenesis, including genetic and environmental factors, is still widely uncertain. SZ incidence has always been high and quite stable in human populations, across time and regardless of cultural implications, for unclear reasons. It has been hypothesized that SZ pathophysiology may involve the biological components that changed during the recent human evolutionary history, and led to our distinctive mode of cognition, which includes language skills. In this paper we explore this hypothesis, focusing on the self-domestication of the human species. This has been claimed to account for many human-specific distinctive traits, including aspects of our behavior and cognition, and to favor the emergence of complex languages through cultural evolution. The “domestication syndrome” in mammals comprises the constellation of traits exhibited by domesticated strains, seemingly resulting from the hypofunction of the neural crest. It is our intention to show that people with SZ exhibit more marked domesticated traits at the morphological, physiological, and behavioral levels. We also show that genes involved in domestication and neural crest development and function comprise nearly 20% of SZ candidates, most of which exhibit altered expression profiles in the brain of SZ patients, specifically in areas involved in language processing. Based on these observations, we conclude that SZ may represent an abnormal ontogenetic itinerary for the human faculty of language, resulting, at least in part, from changes in genes important for the domestication syndrome and primarily involving the neural crest.

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“…Here, they suggest that the language deficits in schizophrenia seem to be rooted in the evolutionary processes that brought about modern language. This evolutionary account and the common oscillatory profiles of language deficits in schizophrenia and ASD are further described in a recent article (Murphy and Benítez-Burraco, 2016).…”

Section: Pathological Changes To Communication In Autism and Schizophmentioning

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Brain Oscillations in Human Communication

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Editorial on the Research Topic Brain Oscillations in Human Communication This Research Topic featured 15 articles from a wide range of research areas related to human communication. All contributions focus on rhythmic brain activity as opposed to, for example, event related potentials or functional imaging approaches. Rhythmic brain activity has been shown to be of immense importance for the temporal coordination of neural activity and, consequently, for all aspects of cognition and behaviour (Buzsaki and Draguhn, 2004; Wang, 2010). In this editorial, we summarise the research on rhythmic brain activity in language and communication that appeared in this Research Topic (see Table 1).

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Language deficits in schizophrenia and autism as related oscillatory connectomopathies: An evolutionary account

Cited by 62 publications

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Language design and communicative competence: The minimalist perspective

Language design and communicative competence: The minimalist perspective

Schizophrenia and Human Self-Domestication: An Evolutionary Linguistics Approach

Brain Oscillations in Human Communication

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