Evolution of the Brain, Cognition, and Emotion in Vertebrates

Part I. Evolution of the Brain

1. Overview of Brain Evolution: Lobe-Finned Fish vs. Ray-Finned Fish
Kei Yamamoto, Solal Bloch

2. The Origins of the Bird Brain: Multiple Pulses of Cerebral Expansion in Evolution
Toru Shimizu, Kazutaka Shinozuka, Ahmet K. Uysal, S. Leilani Kellogg

3. The Evolution of Mammalian Brains from Early Mammals to Present-Day Primates
Jon H. Kaas

4. Developmental Sequences Predict Increased Connectivity in Brain Evolution: A Comparative Analysis of Developmental Timing, Gene Expression, Neuron Numbers, and Diffusion MR Tractography
Christine J. Charvet, Chet C. Sherwood, Emi Takahashi

Part II. Evolution of Cognition

5. The Evolution of Cognitive Brains in Non-mammals
Andrew N. Iwaniuk

6. Evolution of Cognitive Brains: Mammals
Gerhard Roth, Ursula Dicke

7. On the Matter of Mind: Neural Complexity and Functional Dynamics of the Human Brain
Michel A. Hofman

8. Behavioural, Cognitive and Neuronal Changes in the Acquisition of Tool Use
Yumiko Yamazaki, Atsushi Iriki

9. Great Ape Social Attention
Fumihiro Kano, Josep Call

10. Evolution of Vocal Communication: From Animal Calls to Human Speech
Kazuo Okanoya

11. Integration Hypothesis: A Parallel Model of Language Development in Evolution
Shigeru Miyagawa

Part III. Evolution of Emotion

12. Evolution of the Emotional Brain
Edmund T. Rolls

13. Evolutionary Origin of Empathy and Inequality Aversion
Shigeru Watanabe, Yutaka Kosaki

Keywords: Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Behavioral Sciences, Animal Physiology