Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception
Published on 12. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
324 pages
978-0-323-99193-3 (ISBN)
Description
Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive perspective on the evolution of the visuospatial ability in the human genus. It presents current topics in cognitive sciences and prehistoric archaeology, to provide a bridge between evolutionary anthropology and neurobiology.
This book explores how body perception and spatial sensing may have evolved in humans, as to enhance a "prosthetic capacity? able to integrate the brain, body, and technological elements into a single functional system. It includes chapters on touch and haptics, peripersonal space, parietal lobe evolution, somatosensory integration, neuroarchaeology, visual behavior, attention, and psychometrics.
Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception represents an essential resource for evolutionary biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and neuroscientists who are interested in the role of body perception and spatial ability in human cognition.
This book explores how body perception and spatial sensing may have evolved in humans, as to enhance a "prosthetic capacity? able to integrate the brain, body, and technological elements into a single functional system. It includes chapters on touch and haptics, peripersonal space, parietal lobe evolution, somatosensory integration, neuroarchaeology, visual behavior, attention, and psychometrics.
Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception represents an essential resource for evolutionary biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and neuroscientists who are interested in the role of body perception and spatial ability in human cognition.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Researchers in human evolution and anthropology
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in evolutionary biology, anthropology, and cognitive archaeology disciplines; researchers in psychology and neurobiology
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 235 mm
Thickness: 114 mm
Weight
770 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-323-99193-3 (9780323991933)
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06/2023
Academic Press
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Emiliano Bruner has a Ph.D. in Animal Biology. Since 2007, he is the Research Group Leader in Hominid Paleoneurobiology at the National Research Center for Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain. He works in brain evolution, bridging anthropology and neuroscience. His research over the last 20 years has largely dealt with the evolution of the parietal lobes in the human genus, with visuospatial cognition, and with the relationships between brain, body, and environment. He has published more than 150 scholarly articles, writes in several dissemination magazines, and is the editor of two books on paleoneurology.
Content
Section I: Visuospatial cognition and evolution
Somatosensation and body perception: the integration of afferent signals in multisensory cognitive processes
Perception by effortful touch and a lawful approach to (the evolution of) perceiving and acting
Evolutionary perspective on peripersonal space and perception
The body in the world: tools and somato-centric maps in the primate brain
Parietal cortex and cumulative technological culture
Body-tool integration: past, present, and future
Section II: Visuospatial behavior and cognitive archaeology
The evolution of the parietal lobes in the genus Homo: the fossil evidence
Parietal Lobe Expansion, its Consequences for Working Memory, and the Evolution of Modern Thinking
Experimental neuroarchaeology of visuospatial behavior
Cognitive archaeology, attention and visual behaviour
Handling prehistory: tools, electrophysiology and haptics
A comparative approach to evaluating the biomechanical complexity of the freehand knapping swing
Psychometrics, visuospatial capacity and cognitive archaeology
Somatosensation and body perception: the integration of afferent signals in multisensory cognitive processes
Perception by effortful touch and a lawful approach to (the evolution of) perceiving and acting
Evolutionary perspective on peripersonal space and perception
The body in the world: tools and somato-centric maps in the primate brain
Parietal cortex and cumulative technological culture
Body-tool integration: past, present, and future
Section II: Visuospatial behavior and cognitive archaeology
The evolution of the parietal lobes in the genus Homo: the fossil evidence
Parietal Lobe Expansion, its Consequences for Working Memory, and the Evolution of Modern Thinking
Experimental neuroarchaeology of visuospatial behavior
Cognitive archaeology, attention and visual behaviour
Handling prehistory: tools, electrophysiology and haptics
A comparative approach to evaluating the biomechanical complexity of the freehand knapping swing
Psychometrics, visuospatial capacity and cognitive archaeology