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Hello friend :) Welcome, welcome to Wikipedia! (Katelyn Warburton (talk) 14:48, 23 February 2012 (UTC))[reply]

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Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

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Article Edits

Overall this is very nicely written. Good job! Nice linking other articles into yours. Like Kyle said, feel free to link to your article from other Wikipedia articles-maybe using the ones that you linked to in your article. Could use more citations Watch punctuation, especially around citations-make it consistent Why are some citations (Falk) and others are the blue hyperlinks?

Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas • Define what a homologue is because I doubt everyone who is on Wikipedia would know what that term means. • Be a little more explicit with the history-why is it important that other primates have similar brain structures to humans

Motor Neurons • (Magoo). Watch where you put punctuation. • Expand more on the neurons themselves. You have a lot about the physiology but there should be more information on the actual neurons.

Gestural Origin • Later. 3. Watch punctuation. • You say “came later” but it might be good to rephrase this or say later than what. Maybe just change the wording. • You say “attention-getting” can you rephrase this? Change getting to something else. • “Even hand and mouth…” Might be good to get rid of “even” and start the sentence with “hand”

Universal Grammar • Languages. (Falk). Punctuation • Define non-semantic? People might not know what that means • Early hominids…similar capacities for similar… too many “similar in this sentence. • Is there any way to expand on the mutations of the genes? More of a background or commonality of this problem or something to that effect? Misaacso (talk) 14:30, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your opening sentence definitely engages a reader and makes them want to continue reading your article in order to see what it is about. The last sentence is a little bit confusing. I would suggest maybe explaining it a little bit further or telling the reader that IF there are mutations, humans would be prevented from constructing complete sentences. (Although as I read further, I do like that you discussed it in more detail in the last section)
These regions are the location of language in the brain
- Reword? These regions are where language is located within the brain
…and this system appears to be housed here
- Instead of “here,” –these areas/locations may be better
Your descriptions and summaries of Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas are excellent. A person can understand them sufficiently without having to link to the other pages.
I am unsure of the use of “repurposed” in the motor neurons section.
Your organization is very clear and the article is easy to follow. Your writing supports the topic that you title each section. Good use of links to other articles.
Gestural origin section: OF gestures OF vocalizations? – of gestures during vocalizations? Of gestures to represent vocalizations?
When monkeys view other monkeys gesturing, mirror neurons in the Broca's homologue activate. Groups of mirror neurons are specialized to respond only to one kind of viewed action, and it is currently believed that these may be an evolutionary origin to the neurons that are adapted for speech processing and production. (Fadiga et al.)
- Does this occur for humans too?
This is very well written. My main suggestion would be to keep expanding and adding more, although I am not aware of how much information is available concerning this topic. I would also suggest defining or explaining some of the more complicated terms that readers may not understand such as homologue, mirror neurons, etc. I think that rewording the sentences a little bit may make it easier to comprehend.

Good job, this is an interesting topic. Amf14 (talk) 14:40, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note

When you're creating an article (and I hope there are more to come), it's best to do it in your own userspace. You created User:Neurobiological origins of language, but it really should have been User:AndFred/Neurobiological origins of language. Pages that look like userpages, but where there's no user of the name, can be deleted. In your space, things are safe (except for obvious cases like attack, copyright violation and advertising, of course...). Cheers. Peridon (talk) 21:48, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Count yourself lucky - I deleted it and then took pity on you and restored it. If you think it is ready for the (article) namespace, move it properly next time. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 21:50, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it had been already moved from User:whatsit not just moved to it. Peridon (talk) 21:52, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I tried moving it to the mainspace but didn't see the User:/(Article) dropdown menu. My bad. AndFred (talk) 23:36, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I got caught out by that a couple of times - moved things to User:User:whatever/something. Before that came in, you just had to type it in. I suppose it's an advance... Peridon (talk) 10:38, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Neurobiological origins of language

The article Neurobiological origins of language you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Neurobiological origins of language for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Jezhotwells (talk) 12:36, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Neurobiological origins of language

On 22 May 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Neurobiological origins of language, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that two regions of the brain, Broca's and Wernicke's areas, are responsible for humans' ability to produce and comprehend language? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Neurobiological origins of language.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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