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The prescription drug benefit may be the most highly touted aspect of the new Medicare bill, but other provisions have more immediate significance for hospitals.
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Financial Management, Hospital , Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services/legislation & jurisprudence , Medicare/legislation & jurisprudence , Government Regulation , Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services/economics , United StatesABSTRACT
This article investigates the role that nonverbal actions play in language processing over 3 different time frames. First, we speculate that nonverbal actions played a role in how formal language systems emerged from our primate ancestors over evolutionary time. Next, we hypothesize that if nonverbal behaviors played a foundational role in the emergence of language over evolution, these actions should influence how children learn language in the present. Finally, we argue that nonverbal actions continue to play a role for adults in the moment-to-moment processing of language. Throughout, we take an embodied view of language and argue that the neural, cognitive, and social components of language processing are firmly grounded in bodily action.
