Evolution of the Primate Brain: From Neuron to Behavior (Progress in Brain Research)

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Evolution of the primate brain: Amsterdam ; New York: Progress in brain research , v. English View all editions and formats Summary: This volume of Progress in Brain Research provides a synthetic source of information about state-of-the-art research that has important implications for the evolution of the brain and cognition in primates, including humans.

This topic requires input from a variety of fields that are developing at an unprecedented pace: Written by internationally-renowned scientists, this timely volume will be of wide interest to students, scholars, science journalists, and a variety of experts who are interested in keeping track of the discoveries that are rapidly emerging about the evolution of the brain and cognition. Leading authors review the state-of-the-art in their field of investigation and provide their views and perspectives for future research Chapters are extensively referenced to provide readers with a comprehensive list of resources on the topics covered All chapters include comprehensive background information and are written in a clear form that is also accessible to the non-specialist.

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Suitable for students, and a variety of experts who are interested in keeping track of the discoveries that are emerging about the evolution of the brain and cognition, this title provides a synthetic source of information about research that has important implications for the evolution of the brain and cognition in primates, including humans. Reviews User-contributed reviews Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.

Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Similar Items Related Subjects: Linked Data More info about Linked Data. This malformed URI has been treated as a string - 'http: However, it is important to appreciate the broader implications of the nature of language, such as its portability. Suppose that you have witnessed an event: Because of language, you can share it with the other members of your family or community. Chimpanzee-like photographic memory may well aid individuals in their everyday life. Human adults appear to have lost this extraordinary ability for eidetic memory.

However, language has helped us to collaborate with each other and, moreover, to share benefits communally. Thus, this may be one mechanism for how humans have evolved toward increased collaboration and mutual support. The test booth has two sets of computer-controlled touch panels.

This is a most recent eye-tracking study comparing humans and chimpanzees. The subjects sat in front of the monitor in the presence of their caretaker or mother. This study revealed an interesting aspect of chimpanzee collaboration: Chimpanzee B, next-door was presented with a foraging task to solve, for example, a bottle of juice was placed out of reach so that chimpanzee B needed a stick to retrieve it. This is the first study demonstrating the visuoauditory mapping of chimpanzees. Both humans and chimpanzees showed a strong bias toward choosing bright color when the high pitch tone was presented, and choosing dark color when low pitch tone was presented.

This study collected MRI imaging of brain development in three chimpanzees soon after birth. Brain development was recorded for the first 6. The focus was a comparison of the developmental pattern of white matter WM within the prefrontal region.

The prefrontal WM volume in chimpanzees was immature and had not reached the adult level during pre-puberty, similar to what was observed in humans, but not in macaques. This paper revealed fetal brain development in chimpanzees using a noninvasive ultrasound technique.

The growth rate of brain volume accelerated throughout gestation in human fetuses, but not in chimpanzee fetuses through the later stages of pregnancy. This indicates that humans and chimpanzees differ with respect to the development of brain volume during the fetal period.

Home Publications Books Site Index. Home Publications Tetsuro Matsuzawa Evolution of the brain and social behavior in chimpanzees. Current Opinion in Neurobiology Abstract The comparison of humans and chimpanzees is a unique way to highlight the evolutionary origins of human nature. Cognitive development in chimpanzees This paper aims to summarize the most recent advances in the study of chimpanzee brains, cognition, and behavior.

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Photo provided by Shinya Yamamoto. Brain function and development in chimpanzees Human brains increased dramatically in size after the emergence of the genus Homo. Photo provided by Satoshi Hirata. References and recommended reading Papers of particular interest, published within the period of review, have been highlighted as: Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees Springer T.

Moving shadows contribute to the corridor illusion in a chimpanzee Pan troglodytes J Comp Psychol, , pp. Visual search for moving and stationary items in chimpanzees Pan troglodytes and humans Homo sapiens Behav Brain Res, , pp. Facial perception of conspecifics: Differential sensitivity to conspecific and allospecific social cues in chimpanzees Pan troglodytes and humans Homo sapiens: Chimpanzees Pan troglodytes show more understanding of human attentional states when they request food in the experimenter's hand than on the table Interact Stud, 12 , pp. Development of using experimenter-given cues in infant chimpanzees: Contagious yawning in chimpanzees Biol Sci, , pp.

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