2011年1月
Cognitive adaptations for gathering-related navigation in humans
EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
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- 巻
- 32
- 号
- 1
- 開始ページ
- 1
- 終了ページ
- 12
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.07.003
- 出版者・発行元
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
Current research increasingly suggests that spatial cognition in humans is accomplished by many specialized mechanisms, each designed to solve a particular adaptive problem. A major adaptive problem for our hominin ancestors, particularly females, was the need to efficiently gather immobile foods which could vary greatly in quality, quantity, spatial location and temporal availability. We propose a cognitive model of a navigational gathering adaptation in humans and test its predictions in samples from the US and Japan. Our results are uniformly supportive: the human mind appears equipped with a navigational gathering adaptation that encodes the location of gatherable foods into spatial memory. This mechanism appears to be chronically active in women and activated under explicit motivation in men. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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- DOI : 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.07.003
- ISSN : 1090-5138
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000285904800001