- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Cognitive Biology: The New Cognitive Sciences
- II SPACE
- 2 The Role of Social Selection in the Evolution of Hippocampal Specialization
- 3 Spatial Cognition, Memory Capacity, and the Evolution of Mammalian Hippocampal Networks
- 4 Space for the Brain in Cognitive Science
- 5 Animals as Natural Geometers
- 6 Is Cognitive Modularity Necessary in an Evolutionary Account of Development?
- III QUALITIES AND OBJECTS
- 7 Color Generalization by Birds
- 8 Evolutionary Biology of Limited Attention
- 9 Learning to See and Conceive
- IV NUMBERS AND PROBABILITY
- 10 A Comparative Perspective on the Origin of Numerical Thinking
- 11 Numerical and Spatial Intuitions: A Role for Posterior Parietal Cortex?
- 12 Learning in Core and Noncore Domains
- 13 Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economic Behavior: The Emerging Field of Neuroeconomics
- V SOCIAL ENTITIES
- 14 Neuroethology of Attention in Primates
- 15 The Human Social Brain: An “Evo-Devo” Perspective
- 16 Ontogenetic Development Matters
- Contributors
- Index
Cognitive Biology: The New Cognitive Sciences
Cognitive Biology: The New Cognitive Sciences
- Chapter:
- (p.3) 1 Cognitive Biology: The New Cognitive Sciences
- Source:
- Cognitive Biology
- Author(s):
Luca Tommasi
Lynn Nadel
Mary A. Peterson
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Cognitive science has undergone a transformation where many cognitive abilities have now been explored in a wide range of organisms. This introductory chapter presents a schematic portrait of the sources of change in cognitive sciences and provides a basis for the field called cognitive biology. It also discusses the precursors of cognitive sciences, the current state of affairs of cognitive sciences, the evolutionary approach in the explanation of human cognition and behavior.
Keywords: cognitive science, cognitive abilities, cognitive biology, cognition, behavior
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Cognitive Biology: The New Cognitive Sciences
- II SPACE
- 2 The Role of Social Selection in the Evolution of Hippocampal Specialization
- 3 Spatial Cognition, Memory Capacity, and the Evolution of Mammalian Hippocampal Networks
- 4 Space for the Brain in Cognitive Science
- 5 Animals as Natural Geometers
- 6 Is Cognitive Modularity Necessary in an Evolutionary Account of Development?
- III QUALITIES AND OBJECTS
- 7 Color Generalization by Birds
- 8 Evolutionary Biology of Limited Attention
- 9 Learning to See and Conceive
- IV NUMBERS AND PROBABILITY
- 10 A Comparative Perspective on the Origin of Numerical Thinking
- 11 Numerical and Spatial Intuitions: A Role for Posterior Parietal Cortex?
- 12 Learning in Core and Noncore Domains
- 13 Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economic Behavior: The Emerging Field of Neuroeconomics
- V SOCIAL ENTITIES
- 14 Neuroethology of Attention in Primates
- 15 The Human Social Brain: An “Evo-Devo” Perspective
- 16 Ontogenetic Development Matters
- Contributors
- Index
