Cognitive Evolution
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-68507-2 (ISBN)
The second edition features the latest research and illustrations on emerging topics, making it a true update of the field. After introducing evolution, Boles adopts an information processing perspective – from inputs to outputs, with all the mental processes in between to provide a systematic overview of the evolution of cognition, including its sensory, motoric, perceptual, and cognitive components. The combination of evolutionary, comparative, and neuroscience perspectives provides an insight on topics like vision, handedness, tools and planning, spatial perception, pattern recognition, memory, language, and consciousness.
Cognitive Evolution is a comprehensive, essential read for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of cognitive and evolutionary psychology. Researchers will find it a useful and insightful synthesis of the field, yet even the curious public will find in it much that is surprising and enlightening.
David B. Boles is a Cognitive Psychologist who has published widely on brain lateralization and mental resources. He began reading extensively on comparative and artifact evidence of cognition as a graduate student, leading to inclusion of evolutionary psychology content in his subsequent courses. In 2001 he began teaching Comparative and Evolutionary Approaches to Cognition, a course that transitioned into Cognitive Evolution a few years later.
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Life begins
Chapter 2: Life gets complicated
Chapter 3: Vertebrates to early mammals
Chapter 4: Later mammals through primates
Chapter 5: Humans
Chapter 6: The Mechanical and Chemical Senses
Chapter 7: Vision
Chapter 8: The Origins of Motion
Chapter 9: Bipedalism
Chapter 10: Praxis and Handedness
Chapter 11: Tools and Planning
Chapter 12: Spatial Perception
Chapter 13: Pattern Recognition
Chapter 14: Memory
Chapter 15: Language
Chapter 16: Consciousness
Chapter 17: A Summary in Nine Firsts
Glossary
References
Additional Picture Credits
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.07.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 10 Tables, black and white; 55 Line drawings, black and white; 73 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, color; 107 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 966 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-68507-8 / 0367685078 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-68507-2 / 9780367685072 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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