Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience

✍ Scribed by Steven M. Platek, Julian Paul Keenan, Todd K. Shackelford

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 637
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is an exciting time in neuroscience. As the realisation dawned in recent years that evolutionary ideas can be fruitfully applied to the brains of various species. Along with the experimental tools that enable the testing of useful models of the brain. The book's diversity of papers reflects accurately the intellectual ferment. One example might be the rise of evolutionary game theory. Standard game theory arose with von Neumman and others, and was originally only applied to human subjects. But a chapter on SPFit delves into how players evolve in geological time, optimising their reproductive odds. Thus the promise is to see how behaviour can be explained in the context of playing a long game. Another very topical issue in the book is mirror neurons. Covered all too briefly here, given the amount of research that is ongoing. If there will ever be another edition of this book, perhaps more space could be allocated to it?