paleoneurology

Some endocranial vascular elements can leave their traces on the neurocranial bones, and their morphology can be hence investigated in fossils, as well as in archaeological or forensic samples. T...

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/microforamina/

Amazing congress, the past week in Luxembourg, on The Evolutionary Roots of Human Brain Diseases. A book will soon be available. The evolutionary approach, when employed in medicine, can supply d...

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/the-evolutionary-roots-of-human-brain-diseases/

There are still disagreements on whether the increase in cultural complexity through our recent evolutionary history has been gradual or exponential, progressive or abrupt. But no one doubts it w...

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2024/02/20/archaeological-bias/

This week, I have published a comprehensive perspective review on cognitive archaeology in the Journal of Comparative Neurology. The article introduces fields bridging prehistory and neuroscience...

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2024/01/28/the-psychological-assessment-of-extinct-minds/

Brain Structure and Function’s New Collection: PREHISTORY AND NEUROSCIENCE Evolutionary anthropology must necessarily integrate information from extinct and extant species, investigating the na...

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2024/01/05/bsaf-prehistory-and-neuroscience/

A large team led by Angela Friederici has now published a methodological article to describe a pipeline to investigate brain evolution, integrating anatomical and behavioral information from livi...

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2024/01/04/a-pipeline-to-study-hominoid-brain-evolution/

Hi folks, and happy new year! After more than ten years working fine, one week ago my blog suddenly crashed. Faced with a lack of support from the WordPress team, it took some days (and the help ...

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/happy-new-theme/

A new study by Gomez-Robles and colleagues investigates altriciality in humans and other 140 mammals, comparing and correlating body, brain, and gestation metrics, within a very broad phylogeneti...

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2023/12/10/human-altriciality-and-brain-development/

This week, we have published a very welcome article for paleoneurology, on the accuracy of the identification of brain sulcal imprints on endocranial casts. The study, led by Nicole Labra and Ant...

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2023/11/08/brain-casts/

I have recently participated in a special issue dedicated to the Origins and Development of Attention Networks, with a paper on Cognitive Archeology and the Attentional System. Attention was prob...

https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2023/09/13/attentional-mismatch/