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

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 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