What Is Adaptive about Adaptive Memory?

by Henry Otgaar, Bennett L. Schwartz, Mark L. Howe, et al.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199928053
• ISBN13: 9780199928057
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"