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  1. The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel, and is it unique to humans?Thomas Suddendorf & Michael C. Corballis - 2007 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (3):299-313.
    In a dynamic world, mechanisms allowing prediction of future situations can provide a selective advantage. We suggest that memory systems differ in the degree of flexibility they offer for anticipatory behavior and put forward a corresponding taxonomy of prospection. The adaptive advantage of any memory system can only lie in what it contributes for future survival. The most flexible is episodic memory, which we suggest is part of a more general faculty of mental time travel that allows us not only (...)
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    On the evolution of language and generativity.Michael C. Corballis - 1992 - Cognition 44 (3):197-226.
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    On the biological basis of human laterality: I. Evidence for a maturational left–right gradient.Michael C. Corballis & Michael J. Morgan - 1978 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (2):261-269.
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    Laterality and human evolution.Michael C. Corballis - 1989 - Psychological Review 96 (3):492-505.
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    Mental time travel: a case for evolutionary continuity.Michael C. Corballis - 2013 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17 (1):5-6.
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    On the biological basis of human laterality: II. The mechanisms of inheritance.Michael J. Morgan & Michael C. Corballis - 1978 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (2):270-277.
    This paper focuses on the inheritance of human handedness and cerebral lateralization within the more general context of structural biological asymmetries. The morphogenesis of asymmetrical structures, such as the heart in vertebrates, depends upon a complex interaction between information coded in the cytoplasm and in the genes, but the polarity of asymmetry seems to depend on the cytoplasmic rather than the genetic code. Indeed it is extremely difficult to find clear-cut examples in which thedirectionof an asymmetry is under genetic control. (...)
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  7. From mouth to hand: Gesture, speech, and the evolution of right-handedness.Michael C. Corballis - 2003 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (2):199-208.
    The strong predominance of right-handedness appears to be a uniquely human characteristic, whereas the left-cerebral dominance for vocalization occurs in many species, including frogs, birds, and mammals. Right-handedness may have arisen because of an association between manual gestures and vocalization in the evolution of language. I argue that language evolved from manual gestures, gradually incorporating vocal elements. The transition may be traced through changes in the function of Broca's area. Its homologue in monkeys has nothing to do with vocal control, (...)
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    (1 other version)The generation of generativity: a response to Bloom.Michael C. Corballis - 1994 - Cognition 51 (2):191-198.
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    Recursion, Language, and Starlings.Michael C. Corballis - 2007 - Cognitive Science 31 (4):697-704.
    It has been claimed that recursion is one of the properties that distinguishes human language from any other form of animal communication. Contrary to this claim, a recent study purports to demonstrate center‐embedded recursion in starlings. I show that the performance of the birds in this study can be explained by a counting strategy, without any appreciation of center‐embedding. To demonstrate that birds understand center‐embedding of sequences of the form AnBn (such as A1A2B2B1, or A3A4A5B5B4B3) would require not only that (...)
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    The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind.Michael C. Corballis - 1991 - Oup Usa.
    A detailed account of human language and evolution, reconciling the apparent dichotomy between humans and all other animals. Focuses on the speculative presence of a Generative Assembly Device, unique to Homo sapiens.
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    Recognition of disoriented shapes.Michael C. Corballis - 1988 - Psychological Review 95 (1):115-123.
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    The Descent of Mind: Psychological Perspectives on Hominid Evolution.Michael C. Corballis & S. E. G. Lea - 1999 - Oxford University Press USA.
    To most people it seems obvious that there are major mental differences between ourselves and other species, but there is considerable debate over exactly how special our minds are, in what respects, and which were the critical evolutionary events that have shaped us. Some researchers claimlanguage as a solely human, even defining, attribute, while others claim that only humans are truly conscious. These questions have been explored mainly by archaeologists and anthropologists until recently, but this volume aims to show what (...)
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    Mirror-Image Equivalence and Interhemispheric Mirror-Image Reversal.Michael C. Corballis - 2018 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 12.
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    Language, Memory, and Mental Time Travel: An Evolutionary Perspective.Michael C. Corballis - 2019 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 13.
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    The wandering rat: response to Suddendorf.Michael C. Corballis - 2013 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17 (4):152-152.
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    (1 other version)The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 road map for research on How the Brain Got Language.Michael A. Arbib, Francisco Aboitiz, Judith M. Burkart, Michael C. Corballis, Gino Coudé, Erin Hecht, Katja Liebal, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, James Pustejovsky, Shelby S. Putt, Federico Rossano, Anne E. Russon, P. Thomas Schoenemann, Uwe Seifert, Katerina Semendeferi, Chris Sinha, Dietrich Stout, Virginia Volterra, Sławomir Wacewicz & Benjamin Wilson - 2018 - Interaction Studies 19 (1-2):370-387.
    We present a new road map for research on “How the Brain Got Language” that adopts an EvoDevoSocio perspective and highlights comparative neuroprimatology – the comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in extant monkeys and great apes – as providing a key grounding for hypotheses on the last common ancestor of humans and monkeys and chimpanzees and the processes which guided the evolution LCA-m → LCA-c → protohumans → H. sapiens. Such research constrains and is constrained by analysis of (...)
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    The genetics and evolution of handedness.Michael C. Corballis - 1997 - Psychological Review 104 (4):714-727.
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    Mental travels and the cognitive basis of language.Michael C. Corballis - 2018 - Interaction Studies 19 (1-2):352-369.
    I argue that a critical feature of language that distinguishes it from animal communication isdisplacement,the means to communicate about the non-present. This implies a capacity for mental travels in time and space, which is the ability to call to mind past episodes, imagine future ones or purely fictitious ones, and locate them in different places. While mental travel in time, in particular, is often considered to be unique to humans, behavioral and neurophysiological evidence suggests that it is evident in some (...)
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    Precursors to Language.Michael C. Corballis - 2018 - Topoi 37 (2):297-305.
    One view of language is that it emerged in a single step in Homo sapiens, and depended on a radical transformation of human thought, involving symbolic representations and computational rules for combining them. I argue instead that language should be viewed as a communication system for the sharing of thoughts, and that thought processes themselves evolved well before the capacity to share them. One property often considered unique to language is generativity—the capacity to generate a potentially infinite variety of sentences. (...)
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  20. The evolution of consciousness.Michael C. Corballis - 2007 - In Morris Moscovitch, Philip Zelazo & Evan Thompson (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 571--595.
     
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    The Gradual Evolution of Language.Michael C. Corballis - 2014 - Humana Mente 7 (27).
    Language is commonly held to be unique to humans, and to have emerged suddenly in a single “great leap forward” within the past 100,000 years. The view is profoundly anti-Darwinian, and I propose instead a framework for understanding how language might have evolved incrementally from our primate heritage. One major proposition is that language evolved from manual action, with vocalization emerging as the dominant mode late in hominin evolution. The second proposition has to do with the role of language as (...)
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    The Origins of Modernity: Was Autonomous Speech the Critical Factor?Michael C. Corballis - 2004 - Psychological Review 111 (2):543-552.
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    Toward an evolutionary perspective on hemispheric specialization.Michael C. Corballis - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (1):69-70.
  24. Mental time travel across the disciplines: The future looks bright.Thomas Suddendorf & Michael C. Corballis - 2007 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (3):335-345.
    There is a growing interest in mental time travel in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, and evolutionary psychology. Here we review current issues in each of these disciplines. To help move the debates forward we name and distinguish 15 key hypotheses about mental time travel. We argue that foresight has for too long lived in the shadows of research on memory and call for further research efforts.
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    The Evolution of Lateralized Brain Circuits.Michael C. Corballis - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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    Brain twisters and hand wringers.Michael C. Corballis - 1978 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (2):331-336.
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    Crossing the Rubicon: Behaviorism, Language, and Evolutionary Continuity.Michael C. Corballis - 2020 - Frontiers in Psychology 11:523263.
    Euan Macphail’s work and ideas captured a pivotal time in the late 20th century when behavioral laws were considered to apply equally across vertebrates, implying equal intelligence, but it was also a time when behaviorism was challenged by the view that language was unique to humans, and bestowed a superior mental status. Subsequent work suggests greater continuity between humans and their forebears, challenging the Chomskyan assumption that language evolved in a single step (“the great leap forward”) in humans. Language is (...)
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    Straw monkeys.Michael C. Corballis - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (2):269-270.
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    Access to elements of a memorized list.Michael C. Corballis, John Kirby & Avrum Miller - 1972 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 94 (2):185.
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    Is the handedness gene on the X chromosome? Comment on Jones and Martin (2000).Michael C. Corballis - 2001 - Psychological Review 108 (4):805-809.
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    Psychology's place in the science of the mind/brain?Michael C. Corballis - 1988 - Biology and Philosophy 3 (3):363-373.
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    Scanning and decision processes in recognition memory.Michael C. Corballis & Avrum Miller - 1973 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 98 (2):379.
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    Early signs of brain asymmetry.Michael C. Corballis - 2013 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17 (11):554-555.
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    A gesture in the right direction?Michael C. Corballis - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (4):697-697.
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  35. Corrigendum: Hands on to language: Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13 (2009), 45–46.Michael C. Corballis - 2009 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13 (5):193.
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    Evolution of the generative mind.Michael C. Corballis - 2001 - In Robert J. Sternberg & James C. Kaufman (eds.), The Evolution of Intelligence. Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 117--144.
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    Factoring intelligence: A longitudinal approach.Michael C. Corballis - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (3):508-510.
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    Generative versus nongenerative thought.Michael C. Corballis - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):242-243.
  39. Human Brain, Evolution of the.Michael C. Corballis - 2002 - In Lynn Nadel (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Macmillan.
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    Hand-to-hand combat, or mouth-to-mouth resuscitation?Michael C. Corballis - 2003 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (2):242-250.
    Many commentators have raised issues concerning the idea that language evolved from manual gestures. I deal with these first, reiterating the points that speech is very different from animal vocal calls, and that cortical control over manual action provided the best platform for the evolution of intentional communication and language. I then deal with commentaries on the origins of handedness. The critical questions are whether there is indeed an evolutionary coupling between handedness and lateralized control of speech, and if there (...)
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    Human laterality: Matters of pedigree.Michael C. Corballis - 1984 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (4):734.
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    Human laterality: The other cheek.Michael C. Corballis - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3):479-480.
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    How to grow a human.Michael C. Corballis - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):632-633.
    I enlarge on the theme that the brain mechanisms required for languageand other aspects of the human mind evolved through selective changes in the regulatory genes governing growth. Extension of the period of postnatal growth increases the role of the environment in structuring the brain, and spatiotemporal programming (heterochrony) ofgrowth might explain hierarchical representation, hemispheric specialization, and perhaps sex differences.
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    Lending a hand.Michael C. Corballis - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (1):185-186.
    The precise manner in which language serves its communicative function suggests that natural selection, rather than exaptation or reappropriation, played the major role in its evolution. Natural selection is more readily invoked, I suggest, if it is assumed that language originated as a system of manual gestures, and later switched to an oral mode.
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  45. Morgan. 1978. On the biological basis of human laterality: I. Evidence for a maturational left-right gradient.Michael C. Corballis & J. Michael - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1:261-269.
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    Memory retrieval and the problem of scanning.Michael C. Corballis - 1979 - Psychological Review 86 (2):157-160.
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    Memory scanning: Can subjects scan two sets at once?Michael C. Corballis - 1986 - Psychological Review 93 (1):113-114.
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    On the evolution and growth of lateralization.Michael C. Corballis - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (1):24-25.
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    Postscript: Models, models..Michael C. Corballis - 2001 - Psychological Review 108 (4):809-810.
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  50. The dual-brain myth.Michael C. Corballis - 2007 - In Sergio Della Sala (ed.), Tall Tales About the Mind and Brain: Separating Fact From Fiction. Oxford University Press.
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