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This recall of visual memories is called episodic memory, as coined by experimental psychologist Endel Tulving (1972, 2002). He noted that this ability to not only recall personal memories but also manipulate them and simulate future scenarios was critical in the evolution of modern thinking and problem-solving. Episodic memories may be thought of as memories for episodes or scenes in one\u2019s life. They generally have time, place, and meaning characteristics. The latter is important in memorization because emotionally salient experiences are learned much more quickly and over longer periods of time than less salient experiences.<\/p>\n

Also, it is important to note that animals from foxes to ravens undoubtedly have exhibited signs of episodic memory (Allen & Fortin, 2013), so the same seems to be true of them. Where food is cached has much greater meaning (evolutionary survival) than more mundane experiences. Tulving (1972) has investigated the differences between episodic memory and semantic memory (the latter being a memory for words and meanings). In 2002, he elaborated on the concept of episodic memory by introducing autonoetic thinking, an awareness that our memories are relative and that we may go backward and forward in time among them.<\/p>\n

He reasoned that autonoetic thinking might have been critical to human evolutionary survival, as one could imagine future options and choosing among them without the dangers inherent in trial and error. If animals can experience at least simple episodic memory, then they must have a precuneus somewhat similar to that in humans (e.g., Margulies et al., 2009). Nonhuman primates and other animals also have connectivity- based subdivisions within the precuneus (just like humans), with anterior, medial, and posterior regions of the precuneus connected to various other brain regions.<\/p>\n

There is also evidence that the precuneus in both humans and monkeys is part of the default mode network of the brain. Cavanna and Trimble (2006) were able to demonstrate various functions of different regions in the precuneus in healthy adult humans, such as the anterior portion subserving self-centered mental imagery tasks, and the posterior portion being more heavily involved in episodic memory retrieval.<\/p>\n

They also summarized the results of neuroimaging studies that established the role of the precuneus in visuospatial imaging (critical to and synonymous with Baddeley\u2019s visuospatial sketchpad), episodic memory retrieval, and tasks in which one takes an egocentric perception of one\u2019s self (self- consciousness), others, and the world and perceives agency in those relationships (i.e., intentionality). Lou et al.<\/p>\n

(2004) demonstrated through neuroimaging that medial portions of superior parietal lobe (i.e., the precuneus), along with medial portions of the prefrontal cortices, are critical to self-representation and other-representation.<\/p>\n

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You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Coolidge, Frederick L. (Frederick Lawrence), 1948\u2013 author. Title: Evolutionary neuropsychology : an introduction to the evolution of the structures and functions of the human brain \/ Frederick L. Coolidge, PhD, Psychology Department, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Description: New York : Oxford University Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.<\/p>\n

Identifiers: LCCN 2019033312 (print) | LCCN 2019033313 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190940942 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190940966 (epub) | ISBN 9780190940959 (updf) | ISBN 9780190940973 (online) Subjects: LCSH: Neuropsychology. | Brain\u2014Evolution. Classification: LCC QP360. C6674 2020 (print) | LCC QP360 (ebook) | DDC 612.8\/233\u2014dc23 LC record available at https:\/\/lccn.loc.gov\/2019033312 LC ebook record available at https:\/\/lccn.loc.gov\/2019033313 OceanofPDF.com Contents Preface List of Abbreviations 1.<\/p>\n

A Brief History of Life and Brain Evolution 2. The Evolution of Learning and Memory Systems 3. An Introduction to the Brain 4. The Frontal Lobes 5. The Parietal Lobes 6. The Temporal Lobes 7. The Cerebellum 8. The Hippocampus 9. The Evolution of Sleep and Dreams 10. Paleopsychopathology Glossary References Index OceanofPDF.com Preface Evolutionary neuropsychology is a scientific specialty focusing on the ultimate, evolutionary origins of the brain\u2019s structures and their specialized functions.<\/p>\n

This book is designed for the intellectually curious, but styled especially for academics at any level and psychologists focusing on various aspects of human behavior. It is the first of its kind in a new multidisciplinary science that embraces and uses empirical findings from the fields of evolution, neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and archaeology.<\/p>\n

The bedrock foundation of evolutionary neuropsychology is the assumption that functionally specialized brain regions are adaptations naturally selected in response to various environmental challenges over the course of billions of years of evolution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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