Evolutionary Neuropsychology

An Introduction to the Structures and Functions of the Human Brain

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av Frederick L. Coolidge, Colorado Springs) Coolidge, Frederick L. (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado, Frederick L Coolidge

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In Evolutionary Neuropsychology, Frederick L. Coolidge examines the evolutionary origins of the human brain's present structures and functions, and traces these origins from the first life forms, through the development of consciousness, to modern human thinking. A new multidisciplinary science, evolutionary neuropsychology embraces and uses empirical findings from the fields of evolution, neuroscience, cognitive sciences, psychology, anthropology, and archaeology. The bedrock foundation of evolutionary neuropsychology is the assumption that functionally-specialized brain regions are adaptations naturally selected in response to various environmental challenges over the course of billions of years of evolution. These adaptations and their brain regions and circuitry may now serve new functions, which are called exaptations, and they are particularly involved in higher cognitive functions.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-03-17
Mått160 x 231 x 20 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190940942

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Frederick L. Coolidge received his PhD in Psychology and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Florida. He is currently a professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS). He has received three Fulbright Fellowships, three teaching awards, and two outstanding research awards. In 2015, he was a Senior Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, and he is an annual Scholar-in-Residence at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.

Although the book is organized as a conventional textbook, Coolidge interjects digressions throughout the text that lend an organic feel to the reading experience. [This book] serves as a review of the current state of the art and the history of thinking about many fascinating topics considered to belong within the domain of neuroscience, including learning and memory, the evolution of language, the function of sleep and dreaming, and the potential benefits of psychiatric illness. It is especially recommended to anyone interested in learning how evolutionary thinking can be used to gain clarity in the often bewildering study of human behavior.