Evolution of the Brain, Cognition, and Emotion in Vertebrates

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Watanabe, Shigeru (Editor), Hofman, Michel A. (Editor), Shimizu, Toru (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Brain Science
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Behavioral sciences.; Animal physiology.; Biomedicine.; Behavioral Sciences.; Animal Physiology.

This book presents a new view on the evolution of the brain, cognition, and emotion. Around a half-century ago, Professor Harry Jerison published a seminal book entitled Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence. Since then, there has been a series of dramatic methodological and conceptual changes whi...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Evolution of the Brain
• 1 An overview of brain evolution: lobe-finned fish vs ray-finned fish
• 2 The Origins of the Bird Brain: Multiple Pulses of Cerebral Expansion in Evolution
• 3 The evolution of mammalian brains from early mammals to present-day primates
• 4 Developmental sequences predict multiple types of increased intra-connectivity in evolution: a comparative analysis of developmental timing, gene expression, neuron numbers, and diffusion MR tractography
• Part II Evolution of Cognition
• 5 The Evolution of Cognitive Brains in Non-mammals
• 6 Evolution of Cognitive Brains: Mammals
• 7 On the Matter of Mind: Neural Complexity and Functional Dynamics of the Human Brain
• 8 Behavioural, cognitive, and neuronal changes in the acquisition of tool use
• 9 Great ape social attention
• 10 Evolution of vocal communication: From animal calls to human speech
• 11 Integration Hypothesis: A Parallel Model of Language Development in Evolution
• Part III Evolution of Emotion
• 12 Evolution of the emotional brain
• 13 Evolutionary origin of empathy and inequality aversion.