Any account of “what is special about the human brain”(Passingham 2008) must specify the
neural basis of our unique ability to produce speech and delineate how these remarkable …

Communication and swallowing are highly complex sensorimotor events that are tightly
linked to respiration and vital to health and well-being. The tongue is a complex organ, often …

WEIJNEN, JAWM. Licking behavior in the rat: Measurement and situational control of licking
frequency. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REV 22 (6) 751–760, 1998—Lick sensors are versatile …

Many rodents explore their environment by rhythmically palpating objects with their
mystacial whiskers. These rhythmic whisker movements (" whisking"; 5–9 Hz) are thought to …

The gradual audiomotor evolution hypothesis is proposed as an alternative interpretation to
the auditory timing mechanisms discussed in Ackermann et al.'s article. This hypothesis …

Fluid licking in mice is an example of a rhythmic behavior thought to be under the control of
a central pattern generator. Inbred strains of mice have been shown to differ in mean or …

We examined the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of intravenous (1–5 mg/kg) and
oral clozapine (2.5–10 mg/kg) in rats (terminal half-life= 81.8 min; oral bioavailability …

Two of the roles assigned to the basal ganglia in spoken language parallel very well their
contribution to motor behaviour:(1) their role in sequence processing, resulting in syntax …

Rationale Clozapine and the “atypical” antipsychotics are less prone than neuroleptics to
induce extrapyramidal motor effects, worsening of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia …

Ackermann et al. provide an informative neurological road-map to primate call
communication. However, the proposed model for speech evolution inadequately integrates …