Research Catalog

Title

Early evolution of human memory : great apes, tool-making, and cognition / Héctor M. Manrique, Michael J. Walker.

Author

Manrique, Héctor M.

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

Walker, Michael J.

Description

xv, 150 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

This work examines the cognitive capacity of great apes in order to better understand early man and the importance of memory in the evolutionary process. It synthesizes research from comparative cognition, neuroscience, primatology as well as lithic archaeology, reviewing findings on the cognitive ability of great apes to recognize the physical properties of an object and then determine the most effective way in which to manipulate it as a tool to achieve a specific goal. The authors argue that apes (Hominoidea) lack the human cognitive ability of imagining how to blend reality, which requires drawing on memory in order to envisage alternative future situations, and thereby modifying behavior determined by procedural memory.

Series Statement

Palgrave pivot

Uniform Title

Palgrave pivot

Subject

• Cognitive neuroscience
• Memory
• Hominids > Psychology
• Tool use in animals
• Recognition (Psychology)
• Human evolution
• Brain > Evolution
• Tools, Prehistoric
• Cognition
• Cognition in animals

Note

• "This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What this book is about -- Tool-use by great-apes in the wild -- Great apes, tools, and cognition -- Early tool-making and the evolution of human memory systems in the brain -- Concluding remarks.

ISBN

• 9783319644462
• 3319644467

OCLC

• 992747093
• SCSB-10684726

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library