Evolution of the Brain, Cognition, and Emotion in Vertebrates

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...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Watanabe, Shigeru (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hofman, Michel A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Shimizu, Toru (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Σειρά:Brain Science
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.