In the Mind's Eye : : Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Evolution of Human Cognition / / ed. by April Nowell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Byers, A. Martin,; Chase, Philip G.,; Davidson, Iain,; Errico, Francesco d’,; Forster, Deborah,; Gallup, Gordon G.,; Hogan, Sean C.,; Holliday, Trenton W.,; Jerison, Harry J.,; Lieberman, Philip,; Noble, William,; Nowell, April,; Potts, Richard,; Ruff, Christopher B.,; Semendeferi, Katerina,; Strum, Shirley C.,; Tobias, Phillip V.,; Trinkaus, Erik,; Weaver, Anne H.,; Wynn, Thomas,
• HerausgeberIn: Nowell, April,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: International Monographs in Prehistory: Archaeological Series ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

The last decade has witnessed a sophistication and proliferation in the number of studies focused on the evolution of human cognition, reflecting a renewed interest in the evolution of the human mind in anthropology and in many other disciplines. The complexity and enormity of this topic requires the coordinated efforts of many researchers. This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together, they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size, cranial reorganization and hominid cognition, and the role of language and information processing in human evolution.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Forward: The Archaeology of Intelligence -- Introduction -- Part I. Archaeology and Cognitive Science -- 1. The Role of Archaeology in Cognitive Science -- 2. The Re-Emergence of Cognitive Archaeology -- Part II: On the Ground: Interpreting Material and Non-Material Artifacts -- 3. Memories Out of Mind: The Archaeology of the Oldest Artificial Memory Systems -- 4. A Pragmatic View of the Emergence of Paleolithic Symbol-Using -- 5. Nonmaterial Artifacts: Retelling the Natural History of Artifacts and Mind -- Part III: Paleoneurology -- 6. Archaeological Implications of Paleoneurology -- 7. Intellectual Surplusage: The Role of Bipedalism and Neonatal Head Trauma -- 8. Before or After the Split? Hominid Neural Specializations -- Part IV: Information Processing in Human Evolution -- 9. Multilevel Information Processing, Archaeology, and Evolution -- 10. Behavioral Response to Variable Pleistocene Landscapes -- 11. The Fossil Evidence for the Evolution of Human Intelligences in Pleistocene Homo -- Part V: A Final Word: The Origins of Language -- 12. On the Neural Bases of Spoken Language -- 13. Discovering the Symbolic Potential of Communicative Signs: The Origins of Speaking a Language