Sentences with phrase «in cognitive evolution»
But Borrego acknowledges that habitat and diet could also be factors in cognitive evolution.
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Or, as cognitive scientist Stephanie Braccini and colleagues put it in a Journal of Human Evolution study, «a strengthening of individual asymmetry [may have] started as soon as early hominins assumed a habitual upright posture during tool use or foraging».
For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.
The purposeful activities provide the first steps in the evolution of the cognitive, social, and emotional processes that continue in the academic work of the elementary school.
«The Blombos Cave «red ochre paint factory» represents a milestone in human cognitive evolution,» Rifkin says.
Researchers hypothesize that the technological leap was driven by a cognitive leap, an evolution in brain wiring.
«People are likely to react with little fear to certain types of objectively dangerous risk that evolution has not prepared them for, such as guns, hamburgers, automobiles, smoking, and unsafe sex, even when they recognize the threat at a cognitive level,» says Carnegie Mellon University researcher George Loewenstein, whose seminal 2001 paper, «Risk as Feelings,» (pdf) debunked theories that decision making in the face of risk or uncertainty relies largely on reason.
If anything the evidence indicates that the great cognitive achievement in human evolution was cortical plasticity, which allows for rapidly adaptive changes to the environment, both across evolutionary time and [across] individual lifetimes.
Wolfe has taken it upon himself to explain various aspects of science — having to do with biological evolution, linguistics, psychology and cognitive neuroscience — to scientists, in the process disparaging titans in their fields such as Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky.
Daniel Povinelli, director of the Cognitive Evolution Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, objects to the entire trend in animal cognition studies.
Living in such a society requires that the birds recognize and remember others, and whether they are friend or foe — mental tasks that are thought to be linked to the evolution of significant cognitive skills.
Was it a rational decision learned in childhood, or was it — as Harvard evolutionary biologist and cognitive neuroscientist Marc Hauser claims — based on instincts encoded in our brains by evolution?
«Even in the simplest social group possible, cognitive demands help shape brain evolution,» Wcislo says.
Professor Veissière, a cognitive anthropologist who studies the evolution of cognition and culture, explains that the desire to watch and monitor others — but also to be seen and monitored by others — runs deep in our evolutionary past.
«This new finding is really strong evidence for the multiple evolution of cognitive abilities,» says Helmut Prior, the lead researcher and now a professor of psychology at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany.
In the course of evolution, certain mammals, notably humans, have developed larger brains than others, and therefore more advanced cognitive abilities.
Although nowadays many San tribes that have used bowhunting and poison arrows in the past have abandoned them due to restrictions, modern tools and change of lifestyle in general, the familiarisation, adoption and development of poison weapons dating back to Ancient times are excellent examples of the cognitive shifts in human evolution.
The group's findings were published in Cognitive Psychology in an article titled «Evolution of word meanings through metaphorical mapping: Systematicity over the past millennium.»
The new study supports this history of diet - linked cognitive leaps, he says, and he hopes it will bring renewed attention to diet's role in evolution.
The cognitive demands of those social lives, in turn, could have further driven evolution.
«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.»
In terms of the evolution of sociality, we examine underlying physiological and cognitive mechanisms that may explain links between stress, social bonds and cooperation, between non-kin as well as kin.
Research Interests I am interested in how sexual selection has shaped primate cognitive evolution.
«We have shown that species with larger brains relative to their body size experience lower mortality than species with smaller brains, supporting the general importance of the cognitive buffer hypothesis in the evolution of large brains.»
New research suggests evolution is favoring the disorder: A study in PLOS Genetics says certain genetic mutations that are associated with an increased risk of autism were passed on during evolution because they are also associated with improved cognitive abilities.
«The idea is that during evolution these variants that have positive effects on cognitive function were selected, but at a cost — in this case an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders.»
I am studying motor control of the long and flexible arms of Octopus vulgaris as an inspiration for soft robotics, and the neural bases of learning and memory in octopus and cuttlefish - a fascinating example of the independent evolution of highly complex cognitive behavior in molluscs.
«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.
Everyone... EVERYONE wants to push evolution, evolution, evolution, science, science, science... then they want to ingore it and say that there is no difference in the cognitive abilities of the poor and the rest of society.
But depending on how you count, we have five foundational technologies now — nanotech, biotech, robotics, information and communication tech, and applied cognitive science — all of which are not only evolving in interesting and unpredictable ways; they are actually accelerating in their evolution.
In our latest Talking Tech video, Jan Van Hoecke, the CTO and co-founder of RAVN Systems, talks to Charles Christian about the company's evolution from the enterprise search sector and emergence as a provider of AI (artificial intelligence) and «cognitive computing» solutions for lawyers.