Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans Volume 2: Cognitive and Physical Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4431545549 ISBN 13: 9784431545545

Verlag: Springer, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part 1 Cognition and Psychology.- Chapter 2 The Cognition of Homo neanderthalensis and H. Sapiens: Does the Use of Pigment Necessarily Imply Symbolic Thought?.- Chapter 3 Comparisons between Individual, Imitative and Instructed Learning.- Chapter 4 The Ability to Objectify Conventional Styles of Problem-Solving: A Hypothesis on the Difference in Learning Ability between Modern Humans and Neanderthals.- Chapter 5 Cognitive Flexibility and Object-making in Baka Pygmy Children.- Chapter 6 The Demonstration of Resilience in the Drawings of Baka Pygmy Children.- Chapter 7 Social Learning, Trial-and-Error, and Creativity.- Chapter 8 Experimental Studies of Modern Human Social and Individual Learning in an Archaeological Context: People Behave Adaptively, But within Limits.- Part 2 Body Science and Genetics.- Chapter 9 Motion Analysis for Stone-Knapping of the Skilled Levallois Technique.- Chapter 10 Daily Physical Activity and Time-Space Using of Pygmy Hunter-Gatherers' Children in Southeast Cameroon.- Chapter 11 Estimation of the Period of Childhood and Child Growth Characteristics of Pygmy Hunter-Gatherers in Southeast Cameroon.- Chapter 12 Interpretations of Practical Population Genetics Analyses of Genome-Wide SNP Data on Human Demography.- Part 3 Reconstruction of Fossil Crania and Brain Morphology.- Chapter 13 Functional Craniology, Human Evolution, and Anatomical Constraints in the Neanderthal Braincase.- Chapter 14 Cerebral Sulci and Gyri Observed on Macaque Endocasts.- Chapter 15 The Coronal Suture as an Indicator of the Caudal Border of the Monkey Prefrontal Cortex.- Chapter 16 Application of Sliding Landmark Method for Morphological Analysis of Modern Japanese Neurocranial Shape.- Chapter 17 A Geometric Morphometric Study of Neurocranial Shape Variations in the Crania of Modern Japanese.- Chapter 18 Statistical Interpolation of Missing Parts in Human Crania Using Regularized Multivariate Linear Regression Analysis.- Chapter 19 Transferring Semi-Landmarks by Minimizing Bending Energy on Surfaces.- Chapter 20 CT Image Segmentation for Bone Structures Using Image-Based FEM.- Chapter 21 Virtual Endocast of Qafzeh 9: A Preliminary Assessment of Right-Left Asymmetry.- Chapter 22 Reconstruction of the Brain from Skull Fossils Using Computational Anatomy.- Part 4 Neuroscience.- Chapter 23 Integrated Analytical Scheme for Comparing Neanderthal's Brain to Modern Human Brain Using Neuroimaging Techniques.- Chapter 24 Cerebellar Size Estimation from Endocranial Measurements: An Evaluation Based on MRI Data.- Chapter 25 Sense of Acceptance: Key Factor of Social Learning.- Chapter 26 Brain Activation Related to the Imitative Learning of Bodily Actions Observed during the Construction of a Mousterian Stone Tool: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.- Chapter 27 Neural Substrates Associated with Motivation to Learn in Modern Humans.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 4431545549
• ISBN 13: 9784431545545
• Einband: Paperback
• Sprache: Englisch
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