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Cognitive adaptations for gathering-related navigation in humans.

Max M Krasnow¹, Danielle Truxaw, Steven J C Gaulin, Joshua New, Hiroki Ozono, Shota Uono, Taiji Ueno, Kazusa Minemoto.

Abstract

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.

Entities: Chemical Disease Gene Species

Keywords: Domain specificity; Gathering; Navigation; Sex differences; Spatial cognition

Year: 2011 PMID： 23833551 PMCID： PMC3699887 DOI： 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.07.003

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Evol Hum Behav ISSN： 1090-5138 Impact factor: 4.178

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Cognitive adaptations for gathering-related navigation in humans.

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