当前位置: X-MOL 学术Evol. Hum. Behav. › 论文详情
Our official English website, www.x-mol.net, welcomes your feedback! (Note: you will need to create a separate account there.)
Cognitive adaptations for gathering-related navigation in humans.
Evolution and Human Behavior ( IF 5.1 ) Pub Date : 2011-01-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.07.003
Max M Krasnow 1 , Danielle Truxaw , Steven J C Gaulin , Joshua New , Hiroki Ozono , Shota Uono , Taiji Ueno , Kazusa Minemoto
Affiliation  

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.

中文翻译:

人类收集相关导航的认知适应。

目前的研究越来越多地表明,人类的空间认知是由许多专门的机制完成的,每个机制都旨在解决特定的适应性问题。对于我们的人类祖先,尤其是女性,一个主要的适应问题是需要有效地收集固定食物,这些食物在质量、数量、空间位置和时间可用性方面可能有很大差异。我们提出了一种人类导航收集适应性的认知模型,并在来自美国和日本的样本中测试其预测。我们的结果一致支持:人类的大脑似乎配备了导航收集适应性,将可收集食物的位置编码到空间记忆中。这种机制似乎在女性中长期活跃,并在男性的明确动机下激活。
更新日期:2019-11-01
down
wechat
bug