Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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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.

Addresses the role of body perception and sensing in human evolution
Supplies a comprehensive overview on the cognitive mechanisms associated with the integration between brain, body and tools
Offers a bridge between evolutionary anthropology, archaeology, and cognitive sciences

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-06-12
Mått191 x 235 x 114 mm
Vikt770 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor324
FörlagElsevier Science
ISBN9780323991933

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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.

Section I: Visuospatial cognition and evolution Somatosensation and body perception: the integration of afferent signals in multisensory cognitive processesPerception by effortful touch and a lawful approach to (the evolution of) perceiving and actingEvolutionary perspective on peripersonal space and perceptionThe body in the world: tools and somato-centric maps in the primate brainParietal cortex and cumulative technological cultureBody-tool integration: past, present, and futureSection II: Visuospatial behavior and cognitive archaeologyThe evolution of the parietal lobes in the genus Homo: the fossil evidenceParietal Lobe Expansion, its Consequences for Working Memory, and the Evolution of Modern ThinkingExperimental neuroarchaeology of visuospatial behaviorCognitive archaeology, attention and visual behaviourHandling prehistory: tools, electrophysiology and hapticsA comparative approach to evaluating the biomechanical complexity of the freehand knapping swingPsychometrics, visuospatial capacity and cognitive archaeology