Evolution of the Brain, Cognition, and Emotion in Vertebrates

Shigeru Watanabe, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus and DirectorDepartment of Psychology, Keio University, JapanMichel A. Hofman, Ph.D., Professor EmeritusDepartment of Neuropsychiatry, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, The NetherlandsToru Shimizu, Ph.D., Professor and ChairPsychology, University of South Florida, USA

• 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.