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Vandervert L. How Prediction Based on Sequence Detection in the Cerebellum Led to the Origins of Stone Tools, Language, and Culture and, Thereby, to the Rise of Homo . Front Cell Neurosci. 2018;12:408doi: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00408.
Vandervert, L. (2018). How Prediction Based on Sequence Detection in the Cerebellum Led to the Origins of Stone Tools, Language, and Culture and, Thereby, to the Rise of Homo . Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 12408. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2018.00408
Vandervert, Larry. "How Prediction Based on Sequence Detection in the Cerebellum Led to the Origins of Stone Tools, Language, and Culture and, Thereby, to the Rise of Homo ." Frontiers in cellular neuroscience vol. 12 (2018): 408. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2018.00408
Vandervert L. How Prediction Based on Sequence Detection in the Cerebellum Led to the Origins of Stone Tools, Language, and Culture and, Thereby, to the Rise of Homo . Front Cell Neurosci. 2018 Nov 13;12:408. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00408. eCollection 2018. PMID: 30483059; PMCID: PMC6243095.
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Front Cell Neurosci. 2018 Nov 13;12:408. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00408. eCollection 2018.

How Prediction Based on Sequence Detection in the Cerebellum Led to the Origins of Stone Tools, Language, and Culture and, Thereby, to the Rise of Homo .

Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

Larry Vandervert

Affiliations

  1. American Nonlinear Systems, Spokane, WA, United States.

PMID: 30483059 PMCID: PMC6243095 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00408

Abstract

This article extends Leiner et al.'s watershed position that cerebellar mechanisms played prominent roles in the evolution of the manipulation and refinement of ideas and language. First it is shown how cerebellar mechanism of sequence-detection may lead to the foundational learning of a predictive working memory in the infant. Second, it is argued how this same cerebellar mechanism may have led to the adaptive selection toward the progressively predictive phonological loop in the evolution of working memory of pre-humans. Within these contexts, cerebellar sequence detection is then applied to an analysis of leading anthropologists Stout and Hecht's cerebral cortex-based explanation of the evolution of culture and language through the repetitious rigors of stone-tool knapping. It is argued that Stout and Hecht's focus on the roles of areas of the brain's cerebral cortex is seriously lacking, because it can be readily shown that cerebellar sequence detection importantly (perhaps predominantly) provides more fundamental explanations for the origins of culture and language. It is shown that the cerebellum does this in the following ways: (1) through prediction-enhancing silent speech in working memory, (2) through prediction in observational learning, and (3) through prediction leading to accuracy in stone-tool knapping. It is concluded, in agreement with Leiner et al. that the more recently proposed mechanism of cerebellar sequence-detection has played a prominent role in the evolution of culture, language, and stone-tool technology, the earmarks of Homo sapiens. It is further concluded that through these same mechanisms the cerebellum continues to play a prominent role in the relentless advancement of culture.

Keywords: acheulean artifacts; cerebellar internal models; cerebellar sequence detection; cerebellum; language evolution; phonological loop; working memory

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