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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: Mind & Brain Prize 'Language gene' speeds
learning 5 December 2011 "Mouse study suggests that mutation to
FOXP2 gene may have helped humans learn the muscle movements for
speech." "Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, a neuroscientist at University
College London who has studied the KE family in which FOXP2 is
mutated, thinks that the new findings could help explain the
gene's role in perfecting the facial movements involved in
speech. But she does not see how changes in basic learning
circuitry could explain how FOXP2 helps humans to automatically
and effortlessly translate their thoughts into spoken language.
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