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Culture and Phylogenetic Development
This chapter discusses the phylogenetic development of the basic psychological makeup of modern humans. The key to understanding phylogenetic...
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Do Cleaner Fish (Labroides dimidiatus) Have General Cognitive Ability? A Reanalysis of Individual Differences Data and Consideration of Phylogenetic Context
Aellen et al. (
2022 ) recently suggested on the basis of principal component analysis (PCA) that there is no general cognitive ability (GCA) factor in...
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Unit 4 Overview: Symmetry Research in Neuroaesthetics
Why are we fascinated by flowers? Why are we fascinated by synchronous dance? What do they have in common? The overview on Symmetry Research in...
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Resynthesizing behavior through phylogenetic refinement
This article proposes that biologically plausible theories of behavior can be constructed by following a method of “phylogenetic refinement,” whereby...
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Biological Influences on the Development of Child Behavior
This chapter aims to discuss the genetics and biology of individuals as a species heritage and unique individual characteristic reflecting on the...
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Empowering episodic memory through a model-based egocentric navigational training
Recent works have proposed that spatial mechanisms in the hippocampal–entorhinal system might have originally developed to represent distances and...
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Face your heart: resting vagally mediated Heart Rate Variability Shapes Social Attributions from facial appearance
Phylogenetic theories suggest resting vagally mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV) as a biomarker for adaptive behavior in social encounters....
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Cerebral Activity in Female Baboons (Papio anubis) During the Perception of Conspecific and Heterospecific Agonistic Vocalizations: a Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Study
The “voice areas” in the superior temporal cortex have been identified in both humans and non-human primates as selective to conspecific...
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Following the human point: Research with nonhuman animals since Povinelli, Nelson, and Boysen (1990)
For this special issue in honor of Dr. Sarah (Sally) Boysen’s career, we review studies on point following in nonhuman animals. Of the 126 papers...
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Non-Reproductive Sexual Behavior in Wild White-Thighed Colobus Monkeys (Colobus vellerosus)
Rare behaviors are often missing from published papers, hampering phylogenetic analyses. Here, we report, for the first time, masturbation and...
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The Evolution of Mentalizing in Humans and Other Primates
Mentalizing, or theory of mind, is the ability to infer the mental states, such as desires and beliefs, that motivate others’ actions. Mentalizing is...
