Humans possess certain unique mental traits. Self-reflection, as
well as ethic and aesthetic values, is among them, constituting an
essential part of what we call the human condition. The human
mental machinery led our species to have a self-awareness but, at
the same time, a sense of justice, willing to punish unfair actions
even if the consequences of such outrages harm our own interests.
Also, we appreciate searching for novelties, listening to music,
viewing beautiful pictures, or living in well-designed houses. But
why is this so? What is the meaning of our tendency, among other
particularities, to defend and share values, to evaluate the
rectitude of our actions and the beauty of our surroundings? What
brain mechanisms correlate with the human capacity to maintain
inner speech, or to carry out judgments of value? To what extent
are they different from other primates' equivalent behaviors? In
the Light of Evolution Volume VII aims to survey what has been
learned about the human "mental machinery." This book is a
collection of colloquium papers from the Arthur M. Sackler
Colloquium "The Human Mental Machinery," which was sponsored by the
National Academy of Sciences on January 11-12, 2013. The colloquium
brought together leading scientists who have worked on brain and
mental traits. Their 16 contributions focus the objective of better
understanding human brain processes, their evolution, and their
eventual shared mechanisms with other animals. The articles are
grouped into three primary sections: current study of the
mind-brain relationships; the primate evolutionary continuity; and
the human difference: from ethics to aesthetics. This book offers
fresh perspectives coming from interdisciplinary approaches that
open new research fields and constitute the state of the art in
some important aspects of the mind-brain relationships. Table of
Contents Front Matter Part I: CURRENT STUDY OF THE MINDBRAIN
RELATIONSHIPS 1 Theory of Mind and Darwin's Legacy--John Searle 2
Affiliation, Empathy, and the Origins of Theory of Mind--Robert M.
Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney 3 Evolution of Consciousness:
Phylogeny, Ontogeny, and Emergence from General Anesthesia--George
A. Mashour and Michael T. Alkire Part II: THE PRIMATE EVOLUTIONARY
CONTINUITY 4 Similarity in Form and Function of the Hippocampus in
Rodents, Monkeys, and Humans--Robert E. Clark and Larry R. Squire 5
Evolution of Working Memory--Peter Carruthers 6 The Evolution of
Episodic Memory--Timothy A. Allen and Norbert J. Fortin 7
Neuroethology of Primate Social Behavior--Steve W. C. Chang, Lauren
J. N. Brent, Geoffrey K. Adams, Jeffrey T. Klein, John M. Pearson,
Karli K. Watson, and Michael L. Platt 8 Synaptogenesis and
Development of Pyramidal Neuron Dendritic Morphology in the
Chimpanzee Neocortex Resembles Humans--Serena Bianchi, Cheryl D.
Stimpson, Tetyana Duka, Michael D. Larsen, William G. M. Janssen,
Zachary Collins, Amy L. Bauernfeind, Steven J. Schapiro, Wallace B.
Baze, Mark J. McArthur, William D. Hopkins, Derek E. Wildman,
Leonard Lipovich, Christopher W. Kuzawa, Bob Jacobs, Patrick R.
Hof, and Chet C. Sherwood Part III: THE HUMAN DIFFERENCE: FROM
ETHICS TO AESTHETICS 9 Making Lasting Memories: Remembering the
Significant--James L. McGaugh 10 Concepts and Implications of
Altruism Bias and Pathological Altruism--Barbara A. Oakley 11
Justice- and Fairness-Related Behaviors in Nonhuman Primates--Sarah
F. Brosnan 12 Powering Up with Indirect Reciprocity in a
Large-Scale Field Experiment--Erez Yoeli, Moshe Hoffman, David G.
Rand, and Martin A. Nowak 13 From Perception to Pleasure: Music and
Its Neural Substrates--Robert J. Zatorre and Valorie N. Salimpoor
14 Learning Where to Look for a Hidden Target--Leanne Chukoskie,
Joseph Snider, Michael C. Mozer, Richard J. Krauzlis, and Terrence
J. Sejnowski 15 Impact of Contour on Aesthetic Judgments and
Approach-Avoidance Decisions in Architecture-Oshin Vartanian, Gorka
Navarrete, Anjan Chatterjee, Lars Brorson Fich, Helmut Leder,
Cristin Modroo, Marcos Nadal, Nicolai Rostrup, and Martin Skov 16
Dynamics of Brain Networks in the Aesthetic Appreciation--Camilo J.
Cela-Conde, Juan Garca-Prieto, Jos J. Ramasco, Claudio R. Mirasso,
Ricardo Bajo, Enric Munar, Albert Flexas, Francisco del-Pozo, and
Fernando Maest References Index
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