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Title Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience / edited by Steven M. Platek, Julian Paul Keenan, and Todd K. Shackleford
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 616 pages) : illustrations
Series Cognitive neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience.
Contents Introduction to evolutionary theory and its modern application to human behavior and cognition / Aaron T. Goetz and Todd K. Shackelford -- Brain and cognition in evolutionary perspective / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- Introduction to evolutionary cognitive neuroscience methods / Shilpa Patel [and others] -- The evolution of ontogeny and human cognitive uniqueness: selection for extended brain development in the hominid line / Valerie E. Stone -- Hemispheric specialization in chimpanzees: evolution of hand and brain / William D. Hopkins -- The evolution of brain size and intelligence / J. Philippe Rushton and C. Davison Ankney -- The evolution of the brain and cognition in cetaceans / Lori Marino -- The social control of reproduction: physiological, cellular, and molecular consequences of social status / Russell D. Fernald -- Neural correlates of facial resemblance / Steven M. Platek and Jamie W. Thomson -- Lust, romance, attachment: do the side effects of serotonin-enhancing antidepressants jeopardize romantic love, marriage, and fertility? / Helen E. Fisher and J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. -- Self-perceived survival and reproductive fitness theory: substance use disorders, evolutionary game theory, and the brain / David B. Newlin -- Sex differences in spatial ability: evolution, horomones, and the brain / David Andrew Puts, Steven J.C. Gaulin, and S. Marc Breedlove -- The evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition / Ruben C. Gur [and others] -- The evolution of language: from hand to mouth / Michael C. Corballis -- The evolution of human mindreading: how nonhuman primates can inform social cognitive neuroscience / Laurie R. Santos, Jonathan I. Flombaum, and Webb Phillips -- Social cognition and the evolution of self-awarness / Farah Focquaert and Steven M. Platek -- The assortative mating theory of autism / Simon Baron-Cohen -- Deception, evolution, and the brain / Sean T. Stevens [and others] -- On the evolution of human motivation: the role of social prosthetic systems / Stephen M. Kosslyn -- Philosophical, ethical, and social considerations of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience / Michael B. Kimberly and Paul Root Wolpe -- Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience / Julian Paul Keenan [and others]
Summary An essential reference for the new discipline of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience that defines the field's approach of applying evolutionary theory to guide brain-behavior investigations
Analysis NEUROSCIENCE/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cognitive neuroscience.
Brain -- Evolution.
Evolutionary psychology.
Brain.
Neurosciences.
Brain
Cognition -- physiology
Behavior -- physiology
Cognitive Science
Evolution
Neurosciences
brains.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
Neurosciences
Brain
Brain -- Evolution
Cognitive neuroscience
Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionspsychologie
Kognitionswissenschaft
Neuropsychologie
Gehirn
Neurowetenschappen.
Cognitiewetenschap.
Evolutionary psychology.
77.50 psychophysiology.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Platek, Steven M.
Keenan, Julian Paul.
Shackelford, Todd K. (Todd Kennedy), 1971-
LC no. 2006048171
ISBN 9780262281669
026228166X
1282100416
9781282100411
9781429455411
1429455411
9786612100413
6612100419
0262293161
9780262293167