From Monkey Brain to Human Brain: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium (Bradford Books)

418 Pages·2005·2.49 MB·English

by  Stanislas Dehaene

FROM MONKEY BRAIN
TO HUMAN BRAIN
A Fyssen Foundation Symposium
E D I T E D B Y
Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-René Duhamel, Marc D. Hauser, and Giacomo Rizzolatti
From Monkey Brain to Human Brain
Fyssen Foundation Series, published by Oxford University Press
Social Relationships and Cognitive Development
edited by Robert Hinde, Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, and Joan Stevenson-Hinde
Thought Without Language
edited by L. Weiskrantz
The Use of Tools by Human and Non-human Primates
edited by Arlette Berthelet and Jean Chavaillon
Origins of the Human Brain
edited by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Jean Chavaillon
Causal Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Debate
edited by Dan Sperber, David Premack, and Ann James Premack
From Monkey Brain to Human Brain
edited by Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-René Duhamel, Marc D. Hauser, and Giacomo Rizzolatti
From Monkey Brain to Human Brain
A Fyssen Foundation Symposium
edited by Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-René Duhamel, Marc D. Hauser, and
Giacomo Rizzolatti
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From monkey brain to human brain : a Fyssen Foundation symposium / editors, Stanislas
Dehaene...[et al.].
p. cm.—(Fyssen Foundation symposium)
“Proceedings of the ninth Fyssen Symposium entitled ‘From monkey brain to human brain’
which was held at the Pavillon Henry IV in St-Germain-en-Laye from 20 to 23 June 2003”—Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-04223-1 (alk. paper)
1. Brain—Evolution—Congresses. 2. Comparative neurobiology—Congresses. 3. Primates—
Physiology—Congresses. I. Dehaene, Stanislas. II. Fyssen Symposium (9th : 2003 : St. Germain-
en-Laye, France). III. Series.
QP376.F715 2005
612.8¢2—dc22
2004051170
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To the memory of Mrs. A. H. Fyssen

Contents
Series Foreword xi
Preface xiii
I Human Brain Evolution: New Methods and Results 1
1 Surface-Based Comparisons of Macaque and Human Cortical Organization 3
David C. Van Essen
2 Combined Human and Monkey fMRI Methods for the Study of Large-Scale
Neuronal Networks in the Primate Brain 21
Zoe Kourtzi and Nikos K. Logothetis
3 Evolution of the Human Brain and Comparative Cyto- and Receptor
Architecture 41
Karl Zilles
4 Evolution of the Human Brain and Comparative Paleoanthropology 57
Jean-Jacques Hublin
5 Genes, Brains, and Culture: From Monkey to Human 73
Jean-Pierre Changeux
II Putative Prerogatives of the Human Brain and Their Evolutionary Precursors 95
6 Quantitative Thinking: From Monkey to Human and Human Infant to Human
Adult 97
Elizabeth M. Brannon
7 Neural Correlates of Numerical Cognition in the Neocortex of Nonhuman
Primates 117
Andreas Nieder and Earl K. Miller
viii Contents
8 Evolution of Human Cortical Circuits for Reading and Arithmetic: The “Neuronal
Recycling” Hypothesis 133
Stanislas Dehaene
9 Cooperative Brains: Psychological Constraints on the Evolution of Altruism 159
Jeffrey R. Stevens and Marc D. Hauser
10 Do Monkeys Understand Actions and Minds of Others? Studies of Single Cells
and Eye Movements 189
Erica N. Lorincz, Tjeerd Jellema, Juan-Carlos Gómez, Nick Barraclough, Dengke Xiao, and
David I. Perrett
III Space, Action, and Attention: The Multiple Functions of Parietofrontal
Circuits 211
11 The Mirror Neuron System and Its Role in Imitation and Language 213
Giacomo Rizzolatti and Giovanni Buccino
12 Organization of the Posterior Parietal Lobe and of Parietofrontal
Connections 235
Giuseppe Luppino
13 A Prototype of Homo faber: A Silent Precursor of Human Intelligence in the
Tool-Using Monkey Brain 253
Atsushi Iriki
14 Parietal Mechanism of Selective Attention in Monkeys and Humans 273
Claire Wardak, Suliann Ben Hamed, and Jean-René Duhamel
IV Cognitive Control and the Frontal and Cingulate Cortices 291
15 The Rostral-Caudal Axis of Cognitive Control Processing within the Lateral
Frontal Cortex 293
Michael Petrides
16 Primate Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Adaptation of Behavior 315
Céline Amiez, Jean-Paul Joseph, and Emmanuel Procyk
V Visual Representations and the Temporal Lobe 337
17 Does the Human Brain Process Objects of Expertise Like Faces? A Review of the
Evidence 339
Elinor McKone and Nancy Kanwisher
Contents ix
18 Representation of Object Images by Combinations of Visual Features in the
Macaque Inferotemporal Cortex 357
Manabu Tanifuji, Kazushige Tsunoda, and Yukako Yamane
Contributors 371
Index 373