Stanislas Dehaene , Jean-Ren¿ Duhamel Duhamel , Marc D. Hauser and Giacomo Rizzolatti
"This amazing volume modernizes Darwin by showing how closely the human and monkey brain are linked in morphology and genetics. Its chapters demonstrate that even our most impressive cognitive achievements of language, mathematics, and empathy are all illuminated by the relevant primate circuitry." -- Michael Posner, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
The extraordinary overlap between human and chimpanzee genomes does not result in an equal overlap between human and chimpanzee thoughts, sensations, perceptions, and emotions; there are considerable similarities but also considerable differences between human and nonhuman primate brains. From Monkey Brain to Human Brain uses the latest findings in cognitive psychology, comparative biology, and neuroscience to look at the complex patterns of convergence and divergence in primate cortical organization and function.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword
Preface
Human Brain Evolution: New Methods and Results
1
Surface-Based Comparisons of Macaque and Human Cortical Organization
2
Combined Human and Monkey fMRI Methods for the Study of Large-Scale Neuronal Networks in the Primate Brain by Zoe Kourtzi and Nikos K. Logothetis
3
Evolution of the Human Brain and Comparative Cyto- and Receptor Architecture by Karl Zilles
4
Evolution of the Human Brain and Comparative Paleoanthropology by Jean-Jacques Hublin
5
Genes, Brains, and Culture: From Monkey to Human by Jean-Pierre Changeux
Putative Prerogatives of the Human Brain and Their Evolutionary Precursors
6
Quantitative Thinking: From Monkey to Human and Human Infant to Human Adult by Elizabeth M. Brannon
7
Neural Correlates of Numerical Cognition in the Neocortex of Nonhuman Primates by Andreas Nieder and Earl K. Miller
8
Evolution of Human Cortical Circuits for Reading and Arithmetic: The "Neuronal Recycling" Hypothesis by Stanislas Dehaene
9
Cooperative Brains: Psychological Constraints on the Evolution of Altruism by Jeffrey R. Stevens and Marc D. Hauser
10
Do Monkeys Understand Actions and Minds of Others? Studies of Single Cells and Eye Movements by Erica N. Lorincz, Tjeerd Jellema, Juan-Carlos GÛmez, Nick Barraclough, Dengke Xiao, and David I. Perrett
Space, Action, and Attention: The Multiple Functions of Parietofrontal Circuits
11
The Mirror Neuron System and Its Role in Imitation and Language by Giacomo Rizzolatti and Giovanni Buccino
12
Organization of the Posterior Parietal Lobe and of Parietofrontal Connections by Giuseppe Luppino
13
A Prototype of Homo faber: A Silent Precursor of Human Intelligence in the Tool-Using Monkey Brain by Atsushi Iriki
14
Parietal Mechanism of Selective Attention in Monkeys and Humans by Claire Wardak, Suliann Ben Hamed, and Jean-Rene Duhamel
Cognitive Control and the Frontal and Cingulate Cortices
15
The Rostral-Caudal Axis of Cognitive Control Processing within the Lateral Frontal Cortex by Michael Petrides
16
Primate Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Adaptation of Behavior by Celine Amiez, Jean-Paul Joseph, and Emmanuel Procyk
Visual Representations and the Temporal Lobe
17
Does the Human Brain Process Objects of Expertise Like Faces? A Review of the Evidence by Elinor McKone and Nancy Kanwisher
18
Representation of Object Images by Combinations of Visual Features in the Macaque Inferotemporal Cortex by Manabu Tanifuji, Kazushige Tsunoda, and Yukako Yamane
Contributors
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