Corballis M C
Psychol Rev. 1989 Jul;96(3):492-505. doi: 10.1037/0033-295x.96.3.492.
The question of whether there is a fundamental discontinuity between humans and other primates is discussed in relation to the predominantly human pattern of right-handedness and the left-cerebral representation of language. Both phenomena may go back at least to Homo habilis, 2-3 million years ago. However, a distinctively human mode of cognitive representation may not have emerged until later, beginning with H. erectus and the Acheulean tool culture about 1.5 million years ago and culminating with H. sapiens sapiens and rapid, flexible speech in the last 200,000 years. It is suggested that this mode is characterized by generativity, with multipart representations formed from elementary canonical parts (e.g., phonemes in speech, geons in visual perception). Generativity may be uniquely human and associated with the left-cerebral hemisphere. An alternative, analogue mode of representation, shared with other species, is associated with the right hemisphere in humans.
关于人类与其他灵长类动物之间是否存在根本差异的问题，是结合人类主要的右利手模式以及语言在左脑的表征来讨论的。这两种现象至少可以追溯到200万至300万年前的能人。然而，一种独特的人类认知表征模式可能直到后来才出现，始于约150万年前的直立人和阿舍利工具文化，并在过去20万年里随着智人的出现和快速、灵活的语言而达到顶峰。有人认为，这种模式的特点是具有生成性，由基本的规范部分（如语音中的音素、视觉感知中的geons）形成多部分表征。生成性可能是人类独有的，并且与左脑半球相关。另一种与其他物种共享的类似表征模式，在人类中与右脑半球相关。
