Evolutionary Neuropsychology

Frederick L. Coolidge received his PhD in Psychology and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Florida. He is currently a professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS). He has received three Fulbright Fellowships, three teaching awards, and two outstanding research awards. In 2015, he was a Senior Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, and he is an annual Scholar-in-Residence at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.

• Chapter 1: A Brief History of Life and Brain Evolution Chapter 2: The Evolution of Learning and Memory Systems Chapter 3: An Introduction to the Brain Chapter 4: The Frontal Lobes Chapter 5: The Parietal Lobes Chapter 6: The Temporal Lobes Chapter 7: The Cerebellum Chapter 8: The Hippocampus Chapter 9: The Evolution of Sleep and Dreams Chapter 10: Paleopsychopathology

Although the book is organized as a conventional textbook, Coolidge interjects digressions throughout the text that lend an organic feel to the reading experience. [This book] serves as a review of the current state of the art and the history of thinking about many fascinating topics considered to belong within the domain of neuroscience, including learning and memory, the evolution of language, the function of sleep and dreaming, and the potential benefits of psychiatric illness. It is especially recommended to anyone interested in learning how evolutionary thinking can be used to gain clarity in the often bewildering study of human behavior.