From Monkey Brain to Human Brain

A Fyssen Foundation Symposium

Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-René Duhamel, Marc D. Hauser, Giacomo Rizzolatti

408 pages, parution le 03/08/2005

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Résumé

The extraordinary overlap between human and chimpanzee genomes does not result in an equal overlap between human and chimpanzee thoughts, sensations, perceptions, and emotions; there are considerable similarities but also considerable differences between human and nonhuman primate brains. From Monkey Brain to Human Brain uses the latest findings in cognitive psychology, comparative biology, and neuroscience to look at the complex patterns of convergence and divergence in primate cortical organization and function.

Several chapters examine the use of modern technologies to study primate brains, analyzing the potentials and the limitations of neuroimaging as well as genetic and computational approaches. These methods, which can be applied identically across different species of primates, help to highlight the paradox of nonlinear primate evolution -- the fact that major changes in brain size and functional complexity resulted from small changes in the genome. Other chapters identify plausible analogs or homologs in nonhuman primates for such human cognitive functions as arithmetic, reading, theory of mind, and altruism; examine the role of parietofrontal circuits in the production and comprehension of actions; analyze the contributions of the prefrontal and cingulate cortices to cognitive control; and explore to what extent visual recognition and visual attention are related in humans and other primates.

The Fyssen Foundation is dedicated to encouraging scientific inquiry into the cognitive mechanisms that underlie animal and human behavior and has long sponsored symposia on topics of central importance to the cognitive sciences.

L'auteur - Stanislas Dehaene

Stanislas Dehaene est professeur au Collège de France, titulaire de la chaire de psychologie cognitive expérimentale et membre de l'Académie des sciences. Il a publié Les Neurones de la lecture et La Bosse des maths, qui ont rencontré un très grand succès.

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L'auteur - Jean-René Duhamel

Jean-René Duhamel is Director of Research, Institute of Cognitive Science at CNRS, Lyon.

L'auteur - Marc D. Hauser

Marc D Hauser est professeur de psychologie et de neurosciences à l'Université Harvard. Il est également membre du Mind, Brain and Behavior Program. Outre son travail en laboratoire, il a mené des recherches de terrain au Kenya, en Ouganda et à Porto Rico.

L'auteur - Giacomo Rizzolatti

Giacomo Rizzolatti, professeur de physiologie humaine, dirige le département de neurosciences de l'Université de Parme.

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Sommaire

I Human Brain Evolution: New Methods and Results
- 1 Surface-Based Comparisons of Macaque and Human Cortical Organization David C. Van Essen
- 2 Combined Human and Monkey fMRI Methods for the Study of Large-Scale Neuronal Networks in the Primate BrainZoe Kourtzi and Nikos K. Logothetis
- 3 Evolution of the Human Brain and Comparative Cyto- and Receptor ArchitectureKarl Zilles
- 4 Evolution of the Human Brain and Comparative PaleoanthropologyJean-Jacques Hublin
- 5 Genes, Brains, and Culture: From Monkey to HumanJean-Pierre Changeux
II Putative Prerogatives of the Human Brain and Their Evolutionary Precursors
- 6 Quantitative Thinking: From Monkey to Human and Human Infant to Human AdultElizabeth M. Brannon
- 7 Neural Correlates of Numerical Cognition in the Neocortex of Nonhuman PrimatesAndreas Nieder and Earl K. Miller
- 8 Evolution of Human Cortical Circuits for Reading and Arithmetic: The "Neuronal Recycling" HypothesisStanislas Dehaene
- 9 Cooperative Brains: Psychological Constraints in the Evolution of AltruismJeffrey R. Stevens and Marc D. Hauser
- 10 Do Monkeys Understand Actions and Minds of Others? Studies of Single Cells and Eye MovementsErica N. Lorincz, Tjeerd Jellema, Juan-Carlos Gómez, Nick Barraclough, Dengke Xiao and David. I. Perrett
III Space, Action, and Attention: The Multiple Functions of Parietofrontal Circuits
- 11 The Mirror Neuron System and Its Role in Imitation and LanguageGiacomo Rizzolatti and Giovanni Buccino
- 12 Organization of the Posterior Parietal Lobe and of Parietofrontal ConnectionsGiuseppe Luppino
- 13 A Prototype of Homo faber: A Silent Precursor of Human Intelligence in the Tool-Using Monkey BrainAtsushi Iriki
- 14 Parietal Mechanism of Selective Attention in Monkeys and HumansClaire Wardak, Suliann Ben Hamed and Jean-René Duhamel
IV Cognitive Control and the Frontal and Cingulate Cortices
- 15 The Rostral-Caudal Axis of Cognitive Control Processing within the Lateral Frontal CortexMichael Petrides
- 16 Primate Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Adaptation of BehaviorCéline Amiez, Jean-Paul Joseph and Emmanuel Procyk
V Visual Representations and the Temporal Lobe
- 17 Does the Human Brain Process Objects of Expertise Like Faces? A Review of the EvidenceElinor McKone and Nancy Kanwisher
- 18 Representation of Object Images by Combinations of Visual Features in the Macaque Inferotemporal CortexManabu Tanifuji, Kazushige Tsunoda and Yukako Yamane

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Éditeur(s)	The MIT Press
Auteur(s)	Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-René Duhamel, Marc D. Hauser, Giacomo Rizzolatti
Parution	03/08/2005
Nb. de pages	408
Format	18 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	875g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780262042239
ISBN13	978-0-262-04223-9