Sentences with phrase «cognitive evolution»

But some researchers argue that another factor — a challenging environment — may also stimulate cognitive evolution.

But Borrego acknowledges that habitat and diet could also be factors in cognitive evolution.

Fonagy asserts that mentalization represents the epitome of human cognitive evolution and is the foundation of all effective psychotherapy.

Like most theories about cognitive evolution, Changizi's is difficult to prove or disprove — behavior doesn't leave fossils, after all — but he builds a compelling case, and his wry style of storytelling makes for an entertaining read.

And other creatures may have undergone convergent cognitive evolution.

Having neural machinery dedicated to face processing suggests that this ability is hard - wired through cognitive evolution, Berns says, and may help explain dogs» extreme sensitivity to human social cues.

Research Interests I am interested in how sexual selection has shaped primate cognitive evolution.

... if development of intelligence is partially driven by cooling episodes, as suggested by Schwartzman & Middendorf (2000), then on BD planets cognitive evolution may be expected to contain a stronger continuous component than on Earth.

«This study raises the possibility that dietary flavonoid intake is associated with better cognitive evolution,» wrote lead author Luc Letenneur in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

MoMA PS1 will present Ian Cheng's (b. 1984) first U.S. museum solo presentation, featuring the artist's complete Emissary trilogy (2015 - 2017), a series of three live simulations dedicated to the history of cognitive evolution.

Dr. Harmand has always been impassioned about the quest for our origins, and the role of tools in cognitive evolution.

«The Blombos Cave «red ochre paint factory» represents a milestone in human cognitive evolution,» Rifkin says.

Daniel Povinelli, director of the Cognitive Evolution Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, objects to the entire trend in animal cognition studies.

«The insights provided by this study into some of the biggest questions in human evolution — cognitive evolution and its relationship to the emergence of language — would have been difficult, if not impossible to achieve without the kind of interdisciplinary approach to research that this project was grounded on.»

Using both algorithmically - generated and human - made content, his simulations or «virtual ecosystems» explore the history of consciousness and cognitive evolution.