Description: What Is Adaptive about Adaptive Memory?, Hardcover by Schwartz, Bennett L. (EDT); Howe, Mark L. (EDT); Toglia, Michael P. (EDT); Otgaar, Henry (EDT); Altarriba, Jeanette (CON), ISBN 0199928053, ISBN-13 9780199928057, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Human memory, like other biological systems, has been subject to natural selection over the course of evolution. However, cognitive systems do not fossilize, which means that current researchers must infer evolutionary influences on human memory from current human behavior rather than from fossils or artifacts. Examining the potential for cognition as adaptation has often been ignored by cognitive psychology. Recently, a number of researchers have identified variables that affect human memory that may reflect these ancestral influences. These include survival processing, future-oriented processing, spatial memory, cheater detection, face memory and a variety of social influences on memory. The current volume grew out of discussion at the symposium on survival processing at the SARMAC conference in June 2011, in New York City. The goal of this volume will be to present the best theoretical and empirical work on the adaptive nature of memory. It features the most current work of a number of cognitive psychologists, developmental psychologists, comparative psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists, who have focused on this issue. This is important because much this work is necessarily interdisciplinary and is therefore spread out across a range of journals and conferences.
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Book Title: What Is Adaptive about Adaptive Memory?
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Topic: Life Sciences / Evolution, General, Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Science, Psychology
Item Weight: 21.6 Oz
Author: Mark L. Howe
Item Length: 6.4 in
Item Width: 9.4 in
Format: Hardcover