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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 A Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. For information, please email [email protected] or write to Special Sales Depart- ment, The MIT Press, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142. This book was set in Stone sans and Stone serif by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong and was printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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

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