9:00 Erin Hecht (Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Georgia State University)

From Action Perception to Tool Making: Adaptations to Fronto-Parietal Circuits in Human Brain Evolution

9:45 Atsushi Iriki (Riken Brain Research Institute, Wakō, Japan)

How human intelligence may have evolved in the primate brain

10:30 Coffee Break

10:50 Virginia Volterra (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome)

Developmental evidence on continuity from action to gesture, to sign and word

11:40 Richard Byrne (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)

Bridging the Gap: Gestural Communication of the Great Apes

12:20 Panel Discussion

Funding provided by the ABLE Project (Action, Brain, Language and Evolution); Emory Conference Center Subvention Fund; Center for Mind, Brain and Culture; and Institute of Quantitative Theory and Methods