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Todd, P. M., and G. F. Miller. "How cognition shapes cognitive evolution." IEEE Expert 12, no. 4 (July 1997): 7–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/64.608166.
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Whitehouse, Harvey. "Cognitive Evolution and Religion: Cognition and Religious Evolution." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 3, no. 3 (December 1, 2008): 35–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v3i3.2.
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This paper presents contemporary cognitive approaches to the evolution of religious beliefs. Arguments are put forward that different types of beliefs, or ‘modes of religiosity’, occur as a result of a number of evolutionary factors (biological, cultural, socio-political etc). At the same time, religions across the world retain a significant level of common and shared elements, also explained in evolutionary terms.
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Jain, Shilpa, and Nidhi Taneja. "Evolution from SDR to Cognitive Radio." Indian Journal of Applied Research 4, no. 8 (October 1, 2011): 248–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/2249555x/august2014/64.
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qizi, Komilova Malikaxon Nodirjon. "The role of cognitive linguistics in language evolution." European International Journal of Philological Sciences 5, no. 2 (February 1, 2025): 19–22. https://doi.org/10.55640/eijps-05-02-05.
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Cognitive linguistics plays a crucial role in understanding language evolution by analyzing how human cognition influences linguistic structures, meaning, and change over time. Unlike formal linguistic theories, cognitive linguistics focuses on conceptualization, metaphor, and embodiment as key mechanisms driving language development. This study examines the role of cognitive processes such as metaphorization, categorization, grammaticalization, and conceptual blending in shaping linguistic evolution. The research highlights how metaphorical mappings structure thought, how prototype theory affects word meaning shifts, and how grammaticalization transforms lexical items into functional elements. Conceptual blending, a cognitive mechanism that integrates mental spaces to generate new meanings, further explains linguistic innovation. Findings indicate that language change is not arbitrary but follows systematic cognitive principles, reinforcing the embodied nature of linguistic evolution. By integrating cognitive science, historical linguistics, and psycholinguistics, this study provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing language evolution. Future research should explore the intersection of cognitive linguistics with neurolinguistics and computational modeling to enhance understanding of the cognitive foundations of linguistic change.
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Mikhyeyev, A. N. "Cognitive evolution or cognitive ontogenesis?" Visnik ukrains'kogo tovaristva genetikiv i selekcioneriv 15, no. 2 (February 28, 2018): 196–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.7124/visnyk.utgis.15.2.879.
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The article develops the idea that the human brain neuroevolution can become a universal object for the study of biological evolution. The main in neuroevolution person was the emergence of consciousness, i. e. ability to generate information about information, i.e. ability to generate information about information. Intellectual development of the individual is a process and the result of intellectual adaptation — the greater the number of layers of management hierarchy uses the individual, the higher his intellectual level. It substantiates the idea that the actual cognitive evolution of the human brain has been replaced or reduced to cognitive ontogenesis. Redundancy allows the brain to form and restructure neural networks, reflecting a particular mental experience of the individual. In the adult nervous system in process of learning the gene expression, unlike embryonic included in the behavioral mechanisms of self-functional systems, which puts morphogenesis in the brain during learning under control cognitive processes. Probably the greatest ability to epigenetic rearrangements has mirror neurons discussed above. Ultimately, there is a specialization of (secondary «cognitive» differentiation) of neurons, allowing the individual to adapt to the social mental manifestations of other people and yourself.Keywords: neuroevolution, cognitive ontogenesis, mental adaptation, mirror neurons.
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Wynn, Thomas. "Archaeology and cognitive evolution." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25, no. 3 (June 2002): 389–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x02000079.
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Archaeology can provide two bodies of information relevant to the understanding of the evolution of human cognition – the timing of developments, and the evolutionary context of these developments. The challenge is methodological. Archaeology must document attributes that have direct implications for underlying cognitive mechanisms. One example of such a cognitive archaeology is found in spatial cognition. The archaeological record documents an evolutionary sequence that begins with ape-equivalent spatial abilities 2.5 million years ago and ends with the appearance of modern abilities in the still remote past of 400,000 years ago. The timing of these developments reveals two major episodes in the evolution in spatial ability, one, 1.5 million years ago and the other, one million years later. The two episodes of development in spatial cognition had very different evolutionary contexts. The first was associated with the shift to an open country adaptive niche that occurred early in the time range of Homo erectus. The second was associated with no clear adaptive shift, though it does appear to have coincided with the invasion of more hostile environments and the appearance of systematic hunting of large mammals. Neither, however, occurred in a context of modern hunting and gathering.
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qizi, Komilova Malikaxon Nodirjon. "The role of cognitive linguistics in language evolution." American Journal of Philological Sciences 5, no. 2 (February 1, 2025): 92–94. https://doi.org/10.37547/ajps/volume05issue02-26.
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The conceptualization of time and space is a fundamental aspect of human cognition, deeply embedded in language. Cognitive linguistics provides a framework for understanding how individuals mentally structure these abstract domains through embodied experiences and cultural influences. This study examines how metaphor, image schemas, and conceptual blending shape linguistic representations of time and space. Findings reveal that time is often conceptualized through spatial metaphors, such as the "Moving Time" and "Time as a Path" metaphors, which structure human perception of temporal progression. Spatial cognition is influenced by embodied schemas like the "Container Schema" and "Source-Path-Goal" schema, reflecting physical experiences of movement and orientation. Cross-linguistic studies highlight cultural variations in time and space conceptualization, demonstrating that languages differ in how they encode spatial and temporal relationships. Conceptual Blending Theory further explains how mental spaces interact to create new linguistic meanings. The study concludes that while cognitive mechanisms underlying time and space conceptualization are universal, cultural and technological factors influence their linguistic expressions. Future research should explore how digital communication and evolving cultural paradigms shape the cognitive and linguistic representation of time and space.
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Arvinder Kaur Saluja, Arvinder Kaur Saluja, and Prof (Dr ). C. K. Shah Prof. (Dr.) C. K. Shah. "Concept and Evolution of Cognitive Psychology." International Journal of Information Technology and Management 16, no. 2 (September 3, 2024): 41–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.29070/ny49e396.
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Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology whereby scientists are motivated to study theunderlying mechanisms of the higher mental processes in human beings. Therefore, to other disciplines,cognitive scientists are interested in understanding human perception, decision-making, attention,problem-solving, thinking, and the development of speech among other mental processes. On the otherhand, the term cognition is derived from ‘cognosco’, which in Latin translates to making decisions,discovering, learning, investigating, studying, or recognizing. However, cognition has been defined bymost scientists as the processes involved in transforming, reducing, elaborating, storing, recovering,and using the sensory signal (input). Generally, cognitive psychology is focused on understanding themental processes of acquiring, processing, and storing information in human beings (Ruisel, 2010, p.268).This research paper discuss the concept of cognitive psychology and its concept as it greatlyaffects the learning power of the human being and play a vital role in educational institutions for thegrowth of students while effective learning processes
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MacLean, Evan L. "Unraveling the evolution of uniquely human cognition." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 23 (June 6, 2016): 6348–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1521270113.
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A satisfactory account of human cognitive evolution will explain not only the psychological mechanisms that make our species unique, but also how, when, and why these traits evolved. To date, researchers have made substantial progress toward defining uniquely human aspects of cognition, but considerably less effort has been devoted to questions about the evolutionary processes through which these traits have arisen. In this article, I aim to link these complementary aims by synthesizing recent advances in our understanding of what makes human cognition unique, with theory and data regarding the processes of cognitive evolution. I review evidence that uniquely human cognition depends on synergism between both representational and motivational factors and is unlikely to be accounted for by changes to any singular cognitive system. I argue that, whereas no nonhuman animal possesses the full constellation of traits that define the human mind, homologies and analogies of critical aspects of human psychology can be found in diverse nonhuman taxa. I suggest that phylogenetic approaches to the study of animal cognition—which can address questions about the selective pressures and proximate mechanisms driving cognitive change—have the potential to yield important insights regarding the processes through which the human cognitive phenotype evolved.
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Uomini, Natalie, Joanna Fairlie, Russell D. Gray, and Michael Griesser. "Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375, no. 1803 (June 2020): 20190495. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0495.
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Traditional attempts to understand the evolution of human cognition compare humans with other primates. This research showed that relative brain size covaries with cognitive skills, while adaptations that buffer the developmental and energetic costs of large brains (e.g. allomaternal care), and ecological or social benefits of cognitive abilities, are critical for their evolution. To understand the drivers of cognitive adaptations, it is profitable to consider distant lineages with convergently evolved cognitions. Here, we examine the facilitators of cognitive evolution in corvid birds, where some species display cultural learning, with an emphasis on family life. We propose that extended parenting (protracted parent–offspring association) is pivotal in the evolution of cognition: it combines critical life-history, social and ecological conditions allowing for the development and maintenance of cognitive skillsets that confer fitness benefits to individuals. This novel hypothesis complements the extended childhood idea by considering the parents' role in juvenile development. Using phylogenetic comparative analyses, we show that corvids have larger body sizes, longer development times, extended parenting and larger relative brain sizes than other passerines. Case studies from two corvid species with different ecologies and social systems highlight the critical role of life-history features on juveniles’ cognitive development: extended parenting provides a safe haven, access to tolerant role models, reliable learning opportunities and food, resulting in higher survival. The benefits of extended juvenile learning periods, over evolutionary time, lead to selection for expanded cognitive skillsets. Similarly, in our ancestors, cooperative breeding and increased group sizes facilitated learning and teaching. Our analyses highlight the critical role of life-history, ecological and social factors that underlie both extended parenting and expanded cognitive skillsets. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Life history and learning: how childhood, caregiving and old age shape cognition and culture in humans and other animals’.
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Mitola, Joseph. "Cognitive Radio Architecture Evolution." Proceedings of the IEEE 97, no. 4 (April 2009): 626–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jproc.2009.2013012.
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Bednarik, Robert G. "Beads and Cognitive Evolution." Time and Mind 1, no. 3 (January 2008): 285–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175169708x329354.
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Watts, Fraser. "The evolution of religious cognition." Archive for the Psychology of Religion 42, no. 1 (March 2020): 89–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0084672420909479.
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Several accounts of the evolution of religion distinguish two phases: an earlier shamanic stage and a later doctrinal stage. Similarly, several theories of human cognition distinguish two cognitive modes: a phylogenetically older system that is largely intuitive and a later, more distinctively human system that is more rational and articulate. This article suggests that cognition in the earlier stage in the evolution of religion is largely at the level of intuition, whereas the cognition of doctrine or religion is more conceptual and rational. Early religious cognition is more embodied and is more likely to carry healing benefits. The evolutionary origins of religion in humans seem to depend on developments in the cognitive architecture. It is further suggested that the cognition of early religion shows less conceptual differentiation, is characteristically participatory rather than objectifying and is less individualistic. The development of religion in recent centuries appears to show some approximate recapitulation of the stages through which religion originally evolved.
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Jacques, Francois H., Brian T. Harel, Adrian J. Schembri, Chantal Paquette, Brigitte Bilodeau, Pawel Kalinowski, and Reshmi Roy. "Cognitive evolution in natalizumab-treated multiple sclerosis patients." Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical 2 (January 2016): 205521731665711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055217316657116.
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Background Cognitive dysfunction affects up to 65% of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and progresses over time. Natalizumab has been shown to be superior to placebo in preserving cognition for the first two years of therapy. Objectives The objectives of this study are to understand the impact of natalizumab on cognition beyond two years of therapy and to investigate whether baseline characteristics are predictive of clinical response. Methods This is a single-center, 24-month, observational study. Sixty-three patients treated with natalizumab were assessed prior to monthly infusions using a Cogstate battery and the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT). Patient demographics were collected at baseline. A linear mixed model was conducted with duration of natalizumab therapy as a between-subjects factor (≤2 or >2 years), assessment as a within-subjects factor, and Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score (MSSS) as a covariate. Results Aside from the MSSS ( p = 0.0074), the two groups were identical. No patient showed evidence of sustained cognitive deterioration over the 24-month period. Baseline parameters including impaired cognition did not influence the trajectory of cognitive change over 24 months. Conclusions Our results suggest that natalizumab preserves cognition following four to seven years of continuous therapy. This occurs irrespective of baseline characteristics, including impaired cognition.
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Haider, Hubert. "Grammar change." Biological Evolution 3, no. 1 (August 2, 2021): 6–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/elt.00024.hai.
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Abstract Structurally, cognitive and biological evolution are highly similar. Random variation and constant but blind selection drive evolution within biology as well as within cognition. However, evolution of cognitive programs, and in particular of grammar systems, is not a subclass of biological evolution but a domain of its own. The abstract evolutionary principles, however, are akin in cognitive and biological evolution. In other words, insights gained in the biological domain can be cautiously applied to the cognitive domain. This paper claims that the cognitively encapsulated, i.e. consciously inaccessible, aspects of grammars as cognitively represented systems, that is, the procedural and structural parts of grammars, are subject to, and results of, Darwinian evolution, applying to a domain-specific cognitive program. Other, consciously accessible aspects of language do not fall under Darwinian evolutionary principles, but are mostly instances of social changes.
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Boussard, Annika, Stephanie Edlund, Stephanie Fong, David Wheatcroft, and Niclas Kolm. "No Sex-Specific Effects of Artificial Selection for Relative Telencephalon Size during Detour Learning and Spatial Discrimination in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata)." Fishes 8, no. 11 (October 26, 2023): 536. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fishes8110536.
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Over recent decades, substantial research has focused on fish cognitive evolution to increase our understanding of the evolution of the enormous diversity of cognitive abilities that exists in fishes. One important but understudied aspect of cognitive evolution is sexual dimorphism in cognitive abilities. Sex-specific variation in brain region morphology has been proposed to be an important mechanism in this context. However, it is also common to find sex-specific variation in behavior and cognition without associated differences in brain morphology among the sexes. The telencephalon is the major cognitive center in the vertebrate brain and variation in telencephalon size has been associated with variation in cognition. Here, we utilize recently developed guppy artificial selection lines with ca. 10% differences in relative telencephalon size to investigate whether similar responses to selection of the size of this region may affect cognitive abilities differently in males and females. To that end, we compared two ecologically relevant aspects of cognition, detour learning and binary spatial discrimination. We tested the significance of the interaction between telencephalon size and sex, and we found no sex-specific effects of evolutionary increases in telencephalon size in the cognitive abilities tested. This study indicates that no clear cognitive sex-specific effects occur in response to rapid selection of telencephalon size. We suggest that future research on sexual dimorphism in cognitive abilities in fish could use various cognitive tests and examine telencephalic sub-regions to gain a more comprehensive understanding of their evolution.
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Jiang, Zuoming, and Yang Sun. "Exploring the Spatial Image of Traditional Villages from the Tourists’ Hand-Drawn Sketches." Sustainability 14, no. 10 (May 14, 2022): 5977. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14105977.
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As an important concept in cognitive psychology and behavioural geography, destination spatial image cognition has a significant impact on the quality of tourists’ experience, and on their behavioural intention. However, studies of spatial image cognition in small-scale traditional villages are limited. Therefore, the present study analyses the spatial image characteristics of four traditional villages of World Cultural Heritage sites in China through the use of tourists’ hand-drawn sketches, using a sample of 366 respondents to further explore the evolution process of cognitive map types and constituent elements with tourists’ stay days. Results indicate that the spatial cognitive map and landmarks are the main types and dominant elements of spatial image cognition, respectively. The tourists’ spatial cognitive process includes two sequences, as follows: the evolution sequence of dominant cognitive maps is “spatial + individual → spatial + individual + hybrid → spatial + individual”, while the evolution sequence of dominant cognition elements is “landmark + path + animal and plant → landmark + animal and plant + path”. This study extends the current destination spatial image cognition literature, and has substantial value for the destination in terms of developing traditional village sustainable tourism based on the tourists’ attitude, as obtained by the cognitive map method.
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Ashton, Benjamin J., Alex Thornton, and Amanda R. Ridley. "An intraspecific appraisal of the social intelligence hypothesis." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373, no. 1756 (August 13, 2018): 20170288. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0288.
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The prevailing hypotheses for the evolution of cognition focus on either the demands associated with group living (the social intelligence hypothesis (SIH)) or ecological challenges such as finding food. Comparative studies testing these hypotheses have generated highly conflicting results; consequently, our understanding of the drivers of cognitive evolution remains limited. To understand how selection shapes cognition, research must incorporate an intraspecific approach, focusing on the causes and consequences of individual variation in cognition. Here, we review the findings of recent intraspecific cognitive research to investigate the predictions of the SIH. Extensive evidence from our own research on Australian magpies ( Cracticus tibicen dorsalis ), and a number of other taxa, suggests that individuals in larger social groups exhibit elevated cognitive performance and, in some cases, elevated reproductive fitness. Not only do these findings demonstrate how the social environment has the potential to shape cognitive evolution, but crucially, they demonstrate the importance of considering both genetic and developmental factors when attempting to explain the causes of cognitive variation. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Causes and consequences of individual differences in cognitive abilities’.
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Jungwirth, Arne, Anna Horsfield, Paul Nührenberg, and Stefan Fischer. "Estimating Cognitive Ability in the Wild: Validation of a Detour Test Paradigm Using a Cichlid Fish (Neolamprologus pulcher)." Fishes 9, no. 2 (January 27, 2024): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fishes9020050.
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Cognitive abilities vary within and among species, and several hypotheses have been proposed to explain this variation. Two of the most prominent hypotheses regarding the evolution of cognition link increased social and habitat complexity with advanced cognitive abilities. Several studies have tested predictions derived from these two hypotheses, but these were rarely conducted under natural conditions with wild animals. However, this is of particular importance if we aim to link cognitive abilities with fitness-relevant factors to better understand the evolution of cognition. The biggest hurdle to assessing cognition in the wild is to find a suitable setup that is easy to use under field conditions. Here, we set out to evaluate an extremely simple test of cognitive ability for use with a broad range of aquatic animals in their natural habitat. We did so by developing a detour test paradigm in which fish had to detour a clear obstacle to reach a food reward. By altering the difficulty of the task, we confirmed that this setup is a valid test of cognitive abilities in wild groups of a Lake Tanganyika cichlid, Neolamprologus pulcher. Subsequently, we probed specific predictions from the two major hypotheses regarding cognitive evolution using the most difficult test configuration. Specifically, we tested the variation in cognitive abilities among groups of different sizes occupying habitats of varying complexity. We find mixed support for both hypotheses, but we hope that our work inspires future investigations on the evolution of cognition in Lake Tanganyika cichlids.
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Burmeister, Sabrina S., and Yuxiang Liu. "Integrative Comparative Cognition: Can Neurobiology and Neurogenomics Inform Comparative Analyses of Cognitive Phenotype?" Integrative and Comparative Biology 60, no. 4 (August 19, 2020): 925–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa113.
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Synopsis A long-standing question in animal behavior is what are the patterns and processes that shape the evolution of cognition? One effective way to address this question is to study cognitive abilities in a broad spectrum of animals. While comparative psychologists have traditionally focused on a narrow range of organisms, today they may work with any number of species, from frogs to birds or bees. This broader range of study species has greatly enriched our understanding of the diversity of cognitive processes among animals. Yet, this diversity has highlighted the fundamental challenge of comparing cognitive processes across animals. An analysis of the neural and molecular mechanisms of cognition may be necessary to solve this problem. The goal of our symposium was to bring together speakers studying a range of species to gain a broadly integrative perspective on cognition while at the same time considering the potentially important role of neurobiology and genomics in addressing the difficult problem of comparing cognition across species. For example, work by MaBouDi et al. indicates that neural constraints on computing power may impact the cognitive processes underlying numerical discrimination in bees. A presentation by Lara LaDage demonstrated how neurobiology can be used to better understand cognition and its evolution in reptiles while Edwards et al. identify the cerebellum as potentially important in the performance of the complex process of nest building. We see that molecular approaches highlight the contributions of the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus to cognitive phenotype across vertebrates while, at the same time, identifying the genes and cellular processes that may contribute to evolution of cognition. The potentially important role of neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity emerge clearly from such studies. Still unanswered is the question of whether molecular tools will contribute to our ability to discriminate convergent/parallel evolution from homology in the evolution of cognitive phenotype.
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Miller, Sara E., Andrew W. Legan, Michael T. Henshaw, Katherine L. Ostevik, Kieran Samuk, Floria M. K. Uy, and Michael J. Sheehan. "Evolutionary dynamics of recent selection on cognitive abilities." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 6 (January 24, 2020): 3045–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918592117.
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Cognitive abilities can vary dramatically among species. The relative importance of social and ecological challenges in shaping cognitive evolution has been the subject of a long-running and recently renewed debate, but little work has sought to understand the selective dynamics underlying the evolution of cognitive abilities. Here, we investigate recent selection related to cognition in the paper wasp Polistes fuscatus—a wasp that has uniquely evolved visual individual recognition abilities. We generate high quality de novo genome assemblies and population genomic resources for multiple species of paper wasps and use a population genomic framework to interrogate the probable mode and tempo of cognitive evolution. Recent, strong, hard selective sweeps in P. fuscatus contain loci annotated with functions in long-term memory formation, mushroom body development, and visual processing, traits which have recently evolved in association with individual recognition. The homologous pathways are not under selection in closely related wasps that lack individual recognition. Indeed, the prevalence of candidate cognition loci within the strongest selective sweeps suggests that the evolution of cognitive abilities has been among the strongest selection pressures in P. fuscatus’ recent evolutionary history. Detailed analyses of selective sweeps containing candidate cognition loci reveal multiple cases of hard selective sweeps within the last few thousand years on de novo mutations, mainly in noncoding regions. These data provide unprecedented insight into some of the processes by which cognition evolves.
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Irwin, Louis N., and Brian A. Irwin. "Place and Environment in the Ongoing Evolution of Cognitive Neuroscience." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 32, no. 10 (October 2020): 1837–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01607.
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Cognitive science today increasingly is coming under the influence of embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive perspectives, superimposed on the more traditional cybernetic, computational assumptions of classical cognitive research. Neuroscience has contributed to a greatly enhanced understanding of brain function within the constraints of the traditional cognitive science approach, but interpretations of many of its findings can be enriched by the newer alternative perspectives. Here, we note in particular how these frameworks highlight the cognitive requirements of an animal situated within its particular environment, how the coevolution of an organism's biology and ecology shape its cognitive characteristics, and how the cognitive realm extends beyond the brain of the perceiving animal. We argue that these insights of the embodied cognition paradigm reveal the central role that “place” plays in the cognitive landscape and that cognitive scientists and philosophers alike can gain from paying heed to the importance of a concept of place. We conclude with a discussion of how this concept can be applied with respect to cognitive function, species comparisons, ecologically relevant experimental designs, and how the “hard problem” of consciousness might be approached, among its other implications.
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Gilbert, Paul. "Evolution Theory and Cognitive Therapy." Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy 16, no. 3 (September 2002): 259–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/jcop.16.3.259.52518.
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Hoppál, Mihály. "Shamanic and\or cognitive evolution." Documenta Praehistorica 33 (December 31, 2006): 229–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dp.33.20.
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Many misconceptions have been associated with shamanism. Recent studies, however, show a way to reinterpret basic concepts concerning shamanism. New field data from ethnology/anthropology, and studies on cognitive evolution have provided new results to enable a reconstruction of some mechanisms which contributed to early developments in the social life and intellectual history of prehistoric people. Shamanic healing methods, simple rhythmic and motor patterns and visual/symbolic representations are the focus of this analytical paper.
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Heyes, Cecilia. "Four routes of cognitive evolution." Psychological Review 110, no. 4 (2003): 713–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.110.4.713.
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Stout, Dietrich. "The Evolution of Cognitive Control." Topics in Cognitive Science 2, no. 4 (January 27, 2010): 614–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2009.01078.x.
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Kerr, Benjamin. "Niche Construction and Cognitive Evolution." Biological Theory 2, no. 3 (September 2007): 250–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/biot.2007.2.3.250.
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Гусев, Станислав Сергеевич. "THE EVOLUTION OF COGNITIVE ORIENTATIONS." Логико-философские штудии, no. 2 (September 24, 2022): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.52119/lphs.2022.99.33.006.
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В статье выделяются четыре типа познавательных ориентаций, определяющих характер некоторых этапов в развитии познания. Обосновывается утверждение о том, что особенности каждого из этих этапов обуславливаются соотношением эмоциональных реакций людей на воздействия внешнего мира и рационального осмысления таких реакций. Развитие абстрактного мышления способствовало изменениям в способах оформления человеческих знаний. От наглядно образных представлений об устройстве мира познание переходило к конструированию формальных моделей, создаваемых с помощью всевозможных знаковых систем. Широкое распространение таких систем в различных сферах общественной жизни выявило ряд трудностей. Контексты создания передаваемых сообщений часто существенно отличались от контекстов их принятия и интерпретаций. Предпринятый в связи с этим анализ коммуникативных процессов обнаружил неоднородный характер структуры передаваемых сообщений. Часть их содержания прямо представлена в используемых языковых формах, а часть лишь предполагается. Ее восприятие происходит при совпадении эмоциональных состояний всех участников коммуникации. В статье обсуждается концепция «молчаливого знания» М. Полани, а также рассматриваются попытки некоторых исследователей выразить «скрытую» информацию явным образом, используя формальные языки современной логики. Но, так как сегодня одной из важнейших познавательных задач становится разработка проектов «возможного будущего», используемые формализмы должны содержательно интерпретироваться. Эффективность такой деятельности предполагает изучение различных форм взаимодействия эмоциональных и рациональных элементов психической жизни человека. The article identifies four types of cognitive orientations that determine the nature of some stages in the development of cognition. I argue that the features of each of these stages are determined by the ratio of emotional reactions of people to external world stimuli and the rational understanding of such reactions. The development of abstract thinking contributed to changes in the way human knowledge is formalized. From visually figurative ideas about the structure of the world, cognition moved on to the construction of formal models created with the help of all kinds of sign systems. The widespread use of such systems in various spheres of public life has revealed a number of difficulties. The contexts of creating transmitted messages often differed significantly from the contexts of their reception and interpretation. The analysis of communication processes undertaken in this regard reveals the heterogeneous nature of the structure of transmitted messages. Part of their content is directly presented in the linguistic forms in use, and some are only assumed. Its perception occurs when the emotional states of all communication participants coincide. The article discusses the concept of ‘tacit knowledge’ by M. Polanyi, and also examines the attempts of some researchers to express ‘hidden’ information explicitly, using the formal languages of modern logic. But since today one of the most important cognitive tasks is the development of projects for a ‘possible future’, the formalisms must be meaningfully interpreted. In order for such an enterprise to be efficient, the study of various forms of interaction between emotional and rational elements of a human mental life is required.
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Davidson, Iain. "The archeology of cognitive evolution." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 1, no. 2 (March 2010): 214–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcs.40.
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Zakharov, V. V. "Evolution of cognitive deficit: mild and moderate cognitive impairments." Neurology, neuropsychiatry, Psychosomatics, no. 2 (June 12, 2012): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.14412/2074-2711-2012-376.
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Klüver, Jürgen, Rouven Malecki, Jörn Schmidt, and Christina Stoica. "Sociocultural Evolution and Cognitive Ontogenesis: A Sociocultural-Cognitive Algorithm." Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory 9, no. 3 (October 2003): 255–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:cmot.0000026584.19223.ef.
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Reader, Simon M., Yfke Hager, and Kevin N. Laland. "The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1567 (April 12, 2011): 1017–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0342.
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There are consistent individual differences in human intelligence, attributable to a single ‘general intelligence’ factor, g . The evolutionary basis of g and its links to social learning and culture remain controversial. Conflicting hypotheses regard primate cognition as divided into specialized, independently evolving modules versus a single general process. To assess how processes underlying culture relate to one another and other cognitive capacities, we compiled ecologically relevant cognitive measures from multiple domains, namely reported incidences of behavioural innovation, social learning, tool use, extractive foraging and tactical deception, in 62 primate species. All exhibited strong positive associations in principal component and factor analyses, after statistically controlling for multiple potential confounds. This highly correlated composite of cognitive traits suggests social, technical and ecological abilities have coevolved in primates, indicative of an across-species general intelligence that includes elements of cultural intelligence. Our composite species-level measure of general intelligence, ‘primate g S ’, covaried with both brain volume and captive learning performance measures. Our findings question the independence of cognitive traits and do not support ‘massive modularity’ in primate cognition, nor an exclusively social model of primate intelligence. High general intelligence has independently evolved at least four times, with convergent evolution in capuchins, baboons, macaques and great apes.
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Poonkundran, Dr Balaji. "Study on Cognitive Process of Attitude and Behavior in Management Evolution." SIJ Transactions on Industrial, Financial & Business Management 06, no. 04 (August 13, 2018): 01–08. http://dx.doi.org/10.9756/sijifbm/v6i4/0103550101.
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Fitch, W. Tecumseh, Ludwig Huber, and Thomas Bugnyar. "Social Cognition and the Evolution of Language: Constructing Cognitive Phylogenies." Neuron 65, no. 6 (March 2010): 795–814. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2010.03.011.
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Lotem, Arnon, Joseph Y. Halpern, Shimon Edelman, and Oren Kolodny. "The evolution of cognitive mechanisms in response to cultural innovations." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 30 (July 24, 2017): 7915–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1620742114.
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When humans and other animals make cultural innovations, they also change their environment, thereby imposing new selective pressures that can modify their biological traits. For example, there is evidence that dairy farming by humans favored alleles for adult lactose tolerance. Similarly, the invention of cooking possibly affected the evolution of jaw and tooth morphology. However, when it comes to cognitive traits and learning mechanisms, it is much more difficult to determine whether and how their evolution was affected by culture or by their use in cultural transmission. Here we argue that, excluding very recent cultural innovations, the assumption that culture shaped the evolution of cognition is both more parsimonious and more productive than assuming the opposite. In considering how culture shapes cognition, we suggest that a process-level model of cognitive evolution is necessary and offer such a model. The model employs relatively simple coevolving mechanisms of learning and data acquisition that jointly construct a complex network of a type previously shown to be capable of supporting a range of cognitive abilities. The evolution of cognition, and thus the effect of culture on cognitive evolution, is captured through small modifications of these coevolving learning and data-acquisition mechanisms, whose coordinated action is critical for building an effective network. We use the model to show how these mechanisms are likely to evolve in response to cultural phenomena, such as language and tool-making, which are associated with major changes in data patterns and with new computational and statistical challenges.
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Seitz, Fabian. "Doing things: reconstructing hominin cognitive evolution from the archeological record." F1000Research 12 (April 6, 2023): 375. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.131999.1.
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Following Pain’s (2021) critical assessment of the prospects of minimal capacity inferences within cognitive archeology based on ‘classical’ cognitive science, I elaborate on the chances of these inferences within so-called embodied, embedded, extended, and enacted (4E) frameworks. Cognitive archeologists infer the cognitive abilities of past hominins from the remains found in the archeological record. Here they face the problem of choosing a theory from the cognitive sciences. Results vary considerably, depending on one’s cognitive theory, so choice matters. Where classical views conceive cognition as mainly involving representations and computing, more recent 4E approaches focus on interactions between environment, body, and brain: hence the same trace, like a stone tool, might require capacities like a mental ‘blueprint’ according to the former, but only environmentally guided perception according to the latter. Given this crucial choice of theory, what are the prospects of 4E then? I present a model of cognitive hominin evolution based on 4E and niche construction theory. Based on this model, I argue that we should be guardedly optimistic: contrary to first impressions, minimal capacity inferences work well within the 4E framework, and adopting 4E might give us a methodological advantage, too.
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Sloman, Aaron, and Jackie Chappell. "Computational cognitive epigenetics." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30, no. 4 (August 2007): 375–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x07002336.
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AbstractJablonka & Lamb (J&L) refer only implicitly to aspects of cognitive competence that preceded both evolution of human language and language learning in children. These aspects are important for evolution and development but need to be understood using the design-stance, which the book adopts only for molecular and genetic processes, not for behavioural and symbolic processes. Design-based analyses reveal more routes from genome to behaviour than J&L seem to have considered. This both points to gaps in our understanding of evolution and epigenetic processes and may lead to possible ways of filling the gaps.
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Holekamp, Kay E., and Sarah Benson-Amram. "The evolution of intelligence in mammalian carnivores." Interface Focus 7, no. 3 (April 21, 2017): 20160108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2016.0108.
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Although intelligence should theoretically evolve to help animals solve specific types of problems posed by the environment, it is unclear which environmental challenges favour enhanced cognition, or how general intelligence evolves along with domain-specific cognitive abilities. The social intelligence hypothesis posits that big brains and great intelligence have evolved to cope with the labile behaviour of group mates. We have exploited the remarkable convergence in social complexity between cercopithecine primates and spotted hyaenas to test predictions of the social intelligence hypothesis in regard to both cognition and brain size. Behavioural data indicate that there has been considerable convergence between primates and hyaenas with respect to their social cognitive abilities. Moreover, compared with other hyaena species, spotted hyaenas have larger brains and expanded frontal cortex, as predicted by the social intelligence hypothesis. However, broader comparative study suggests that domain-general intelligence in carnivores probably did not evolve in response to selection pressures imposed specifically in the social domain. The cognitive buffer hypothesis, which suggests that general intelligence evolves to help animals cope with novel or changing environments, appears to offer a more robust explanation for general intelligence in carnivores than any hypothesis invoking selection pressures imposed strictly by sociality or foraging demands.
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Salagnon, Mathilde, Francesco D'Errico, and Emmanuel Mellet. "Neuroimaging and Neuroarchaeology: a Window on Cognitive Evolution." Intellectica. Revue de l'Association pour la Recherche Cognitive 73, no. 2 (2020): 67–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/intel.2020.1965.
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Neuroarchaeology is an expanding research field that applies functional brain imaging techniques to participants in order to identify the cerebral regions involved in the production or perception of artefacts produced by past hominins. Neuroarchaeology allows making inferences about hominin cognitive abilities with regards to language, praxis, and cognitive control learning domains. As such, neuroarchaeology allows to postulate hypotheses about the evolution of cognition. This article reviews how neuroimaging techniques have been applied in neuroarchaeology and evaluates the novel insights gained from the merger of these fields. We further describe strategies to conduct research, propose a critical analysis of the results obtained to date, and discuss whether they could be used to propose evolutionary trends.
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Dolabela Chagas, Pedro Ramos, Anny Clarissa De Andrade Moreira, and Leonardo Ferreira Almada. "NARRATOLOGIA COGNITIVA: UMA INTRODUÇÃO." Revista Ideação 1, no. 45 (June 23, 2022): 373–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/ideac.v1i45.8298.
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RESUMO: Este artigo apresenta ao leitor brasileiro a narratologia cognitiva, de recente desenvolvimento nos estudos literários. Discute-se sua articulação à filosofia da mente, à teoria da evolução cultural humana, à neurociência e à psicologia cognitiva, com seus desdobramentos para a compreensão da narrativa e da ficção como práticas culturais humanas, e dos seus efeitos sobre a mente do leitor. Para tanto, são resgatados os movimentos fundadores do novo paradigma e as proposições de alguns dos seus autores centrais. 
 PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Narratologia, Cognição, Evolução cultural humana, teoria da ficção. 
 ABSTRACT: This article introduces the Brazilian reader to the field of cognitive narratology, recently developed in the literary studies. It discusses its articulation with philosophy of mind, the theory of human cultural evolution, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, with its consequences for our understanding of narrative and fiction as human cultural practices, and of their effects on the reader’s mind. We therefore present the founding movements of the new paradigm, together with propositions from some of its leading authors.
 KEYWORDS: Narratology, Cognition, Human cultural evolution, Theory of fiction.
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Bickerton, Derek. "Language evolution without evolution." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26, no. 6 (December 2003): 669–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x03250159.
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Jackendoff's major syntactic exemplar is deeply unrepresentative of most syntactic relations and operations. His treatment of language evolution is vulnerable to Occam's Razor, hypothesizing stages of dubious independence and unexplained adaptiveness, and effectively divorcing the evolution of language from other aspects of human evolution. In particular, it ignores connections between language and the massive discontinuities in human cognitive evolution.
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Webster, Gregory D. "Evolutionary Theory in Cognitive Neuroscience: A 20-Year Quantitative Review of Publication Trends." Evolutionary Psychology 5, no. 3 (July 1, 2007): 147470490700500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/147470490700500304.
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Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience is an emerging and promising new scientific field that combines the meta-theoretical strengths of an evolutionary perspective with the methodological rigor of neuroscience. The purpose of the present research was to quantify and test evolution's influence in neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience journals over time (1987–2006). In Study 1, analyses from a convenience sample of 10 neuroscience journals revealed that the proportion of neuroscience articles mentioning evolution grew significantly over the last 20 years. Moreover, beginning as early as 1990, the average proportion of neuroscience articles mentioning evolution was significantly different from zero. These effects were not moderated by between-journals differences in impact factor (a citation rate index), suggesting that the observed growth was fairly consistent across journals. In Study 2, analyses from a convenience sample of 4 cognitive neuroscience journals revealed that the proportion of cognitive neuroscience articles mentioning evolution neither differed from zero nor grew significantly over time (1987–2006); however, the change-over-time effect size was large. Compared to other research areas, evolution's penetration into cognitive neuroscience articles grew faster than anthropology, economics, and sociology, but not psychology. The implications of evolutionary psychology's increasing role in science in general, and in cognitive neuroscience in particular, are discussed.
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Mikhalevich, Irina, Russell Powell, and Corina Logan. "Is behavioural flexibility evidence of cognitive complexity? How evolution can inform comparative cognition." Interface Focus 7, no. 3 (April 21, 2017): 20160121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2016.0121.
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Behavioural flexibility is often treated as the gold standard of evidence for more sophisticated or complex forms of animal cognition, such as planning, metacognition and mindreading. However, the evidential link between behavioural flexibility and complex cognition has not been explicitly or systematically defended. Such a defence is particularly pressing because observed flexible behaviours can frequently be explained by putatively simpler cognitive mechanisms. This leaves complex cognition hypotheses open to ‘deflationary’ challenges that are accorded greater evidential weight precisely because they offer putatively simpler explanations of equal explanatory power. This paper challenges the blanket preference for simpler explanations, and shows that once this preference is dispensed with, and the full spectrum of evidence—including evolutionary, ecological and phylogenetic data—is accorded its proper weight, an argument in support of the prevailing assumption that behavioural flexibility can serve as evidence for complex cognitive mechanisms may begin to take shape. An adaptive model of cognitive-behavioural evolution is proposed, according to which the existence of convergent trait–environment clusters in phylogenetically disparate lineages may serve as evidence for the same trait–environment clusters in other lineages. This, in turn, could permit inferences of cognitive complexity in cases of experimental underdetermination, thereby placing the common view that behavioural flexibility can serve as evidence for complex cognition on firmer grounds.
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SAYAR, Filiz. "Yürütücü İşlevlerin Evrimi Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme." Psikiyatride Guncel Yaklasimlar - Current Approaches in Psychiatry 16, no. 3 (December 26, 2023): 517–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.18863/pgy.1350386.
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Cognitive evolution, as the core subject of fields like paleoanthropology, cognitive archeology, and neuropsychology, has begun to gain more interest in psychology in recent years. Executive functions are viewed from the perspective of cognitive evolution as basic advancements that are crucial to the evolution of language and contemporary cognition. As a metaphor, executive functions refer to advanced cognitive processes (working memory, inhibition, organization, cognitive flexibility, etc.) in the context of complex goal-directed behaviors. Sophisticated cognitive traits like executive functions emerged because of solutions to adaptive issues (survival, reproduction, and social group life) that human ancestors confronted over millions of years and passed them on to their offspring. Although it is accepted that Homo sapiens owes its evolutionary success to Paleolithic living conditions, explaining this process has not always been easy. In this review article, general information about executive functions is presented, followed by a review of scientific explanations about the evolution of executive functions. Evaluations have shown that these alternative scientific explanations based on archaeological, anthropological, and neuropsychological evidence for the evolutionary origins of executive functions do not fit all the pieces of the puzzle. It is believed that novel research models will clarify which of these alternative explanations are proximate causes and which are ultimate causes.
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Becker, David, and Heiner Rindermann. "Cognitive Sex Differences: Evolution and History." Mankind Quarterly 58, no. 1 (2017): 83–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.46469/mq.2017.58.1.6.
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Herculano-Houzel, Suzana. "Embodied (embrained?) cognitive evolution, at last!" Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews 13 (2018): 91–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3819/ccbr.2018.130009.
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Mahyaddinova, Konul. "Abbreviations in language evolution: Cognitive perspectives." Filologiya məsələləri Journal of Philological Issues, no. 8 (2024): 186. http://dx.doi.org/10.62837/2024.8.186.
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Vendemmia, Maria, Anamaria Ciubara, and Francesco Raimondi. "Cognitive Evolution in the Perinatal Period." BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience 10, no. 3 (June 21, 2019): 49. https://doi.org/10.70594/brain/v10.s1/6.
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<p>Neurological development is a complex process in which the nervous system reaches its fullness in adulthood stage. This development begins before birth, continues in both the last months of gestation and in the first months after birth, in response to a continuous remodeling due to the ability of nerve cells to eliminate excess components through apoptosis. One of the most important and ambitious objectives of developmental neurology is the early identification of those at risk for the development of subsequent disabilities: an early rehabilitation intervention can improve the quality of their life. The most important long-term outcome of periventricular leukomalacia is represented by spastic diplegia, which is also the most frequent motor deficit associated with prematurity. This high incidence seems to be due to the specific localization of the lesion involving the cortico-medullary bundles descending from the motor areas assigned to the movement of the lower limbs. In the presence of larger lesions, which also involve the semi-oval center, tetraparesis can be found accompanied by severe alteration of the intellectual function. The follow-up of the high-risk child and newborn is now established in the most developed countries. Physiotherapy is a relatively recent therapeutic modality in the Intensive Care Units and is performed through different techniques, with the aim of reducing respiratory work, maintaining airway viability and improving ventilation and gas exchange, improving neurosensory skills. A sensitive period for performing an intervention with a set schedule is from birth to 24 months of correct age. The program is tailored to the child and his family. An intervention program must promote the neurobehavioral development of the child, the quality of the organization and of the relational, sensorial, motor and cognitive skills and their integration, with the aim of an adequate development, without the pretension of modifying or accelerating its natural learning.</p>
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Jacobs, Lucia F. "The Evolution of the Cognitive Map." Brain, Behavior and Evolution 62, no. 2 (2003): 128–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000072443.
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Blackburn, I. M. "The Cognitive Revolution: An Ongoing Evolution." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 14, no. 4 (October 1986): 274–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0141347300014889.
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The five papers which make up this special issue all reflect a feeling of guarded optimism about future applications of cognitive therapy in our clinical practice. A long way has been covered since the theoretical formulations of the early 60's, which led to the term “cognitive revolution” after Kuhn's (1962) exposé of how paradigm shifts occur in science. If there has been a revolution, it has been, on the whole, non-violent in spite of the sometimes shrill protests from the old guard. As Paul Salkovskis points out in the introductory paper, behaviour therapists have, perhaps paradoxically, been the most enthusiastic in coming to terms with the new paradigm. This coming to terms has involved experimental, theoretical and treatment studies. The areas covered have expanded steadily from depression and anxiety, to the obsessional disorders, the eating disorders, the phobias, adolescent problems and, as seen in this volume, to pain and marital conflict. Articles, books and new journals proliferate. Why should that be so?