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The social brain hypothesis
Author(s) -
Dunbar Robin I. M.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
evolutionary anthropology: issues, news, and reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1520-6505
pISSN - 1060-1538
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6505(1998)6:5<178::aid-evan5>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - perception , cognitive science , extension (predicate logic) , cognition , psychology , cognitive psychology , process (computing) , computer science , neuroscience , programming language , operating system
Conventional wisdom over the past 160 years in the cognitive and neurosciences has assumed that brains evolved to process factual information about the world. Most attention has therefore been focused on such features as pattern recognition, color vision, and speech perception. By extension, it was assumed that brains evolved to deal with essentially ecological problem‐solving tasks. © 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.