Humanized Foxp2 accelerates learning by enhancing transitions from declarative to procedural performance

Humanized Foxp2 accelerates learning by enhancing transitions from declarative to procedural performance

The acquisition of language and speech is uniquely human, but how genetic changes might have adapted the nervous system to this capacity is not well understood. Two human-specific amino acid substitutions in the transcription factor forkhead box P2 (FOXP2) are outstanding mechanistic candidates, as...

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Main Authors: Bornschein, U. (Author), Kerimoglu, C. (Author), Schreiter, S. (Author), Dannemann, M. (Author), Rea, E. (Author), French, Christopher A. (Author), Puliyadi, R. (Author), Groszer, M. (Author), Fisher, S. E. (Author), Mundry, R. (Author), Winter, C. (Author), Hevers, W. (Author), Paabo, S. (Author), Enard, W. (Author), Schreiweis, Christiane (Contributor), Burguiere, Eric (Contributor), Goyal, Shubhi (Contributor), Graybiel, Ann M. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2015-04-28T20:14:47Z.
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