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

  1. 324 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

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

About this book

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

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Yes, you can access Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception by Emiliano Bruner in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biowissenschaften & Biologie. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780323991933
eBook ISBN
9780323993845
Topic
Biowissenschaften
Subtopic
Biologie

Table of contents

  1. Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception
  2. Chapter 1 Somatosensation and body perception: the integration of afferent signals in multisensory cognitive processes
  3. Chapter 2 Perception by effortful touch and a lawful approach to (the evolution of) perceiving and acting
  4. Chapter 3 Evolutionary perspective on peripersonal space and perception
  5. Chapter 4 The body in the world: tools and somato-centric maps in the primate brain
  6. Chapter 5 Parietal cortex and cumulative technological culture
  7. Chapter 6 Body-tool integration: past, present, and future
  8. Chapter 7 The evolution of the parietal lobes in the genus Homo: the fossil evidence
  9. Chapter 8 Parietal lobe expansion, its consequences for working memory, and the evolution of modern thinking
  10. Chapter 9 Experimental neuroarchaeology of visuospatial behavior
  11. Chapter 10 Cognitive archaeology, attention, and visual behavior
  12. Chapter 11 Handling prehistory: tools, electrophysiology, and haptics
  13. Chapter 12 A comparative approach to evaluating the biomechanical complexity of the freehand knapping swing
  14. Chapter 13 Psychometrics, visuospatial abilities, and cognitive archaeology
  15. Index