Overview
- A comprehensive book dedicated to Human Paleoneurology
- Describes computer-based methods and concepts recently introduced in the field
- Presents a multidisciplinary approach to paleoneurology
- Edited and written by international experts in the fields of neuroscience and anthropology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Bio-/Neuroinformatics (SSBN, volume 3)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
The book presents an integrative review of paleoneurology, the study of endocranial morphology in fossil species. The main focus is on showing how computed methods can be used to support advances in evolutionary neuroanatomy, paleoanthropology and archaeology and how they have contributed to creating a completely new perspective in cognitive neuroscience. Moreover, thanks to its multidisciplinary approach, the book addresses students and researchers approaching human paleoneurology from different angles and for different purposes, such as biologists, physicians, anthropologists, archaeologists and computer scientists. The individual chapters, written by international experts, represent authoritative reviews of the most important topics in the field. All the concepts are presented in an easy-to-understand style, making them accessible to university students, newcomers and also to anyone interested in understanding how methods like biomedical imaging, digital anatomy and computed and multivariate morphometrics can be used for analyzing ontogenetic and phylogenetic changes according to the principles of functional morphology, morphological integration and modularity.
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“This volume grew out of a 2012 symposium on human brain evolution and cognition, one of whose focuses was the use of computer-assisted methods for scanning and statistical analysis. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty.” (E. Delson, Choice, Vol. 52 (7), March, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Paleoneurology
Editors: Emiliano Bruner
Series Title: Springer Series in Bio-/Neuroinformatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08500-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08499-2Published: 04 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36286-1Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08500-5Published: 21 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2193-9349
Series E-ISSN: 2193-9357
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 250
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Neurosciences, Anthropology, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Anatomy, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics