To be a viable hypothesis about human psychological architecture, the design proposed
must be able to meet both solvability and evolvability criteria [emphasis added]: It must be …

We define attention as “the set of evolved brain processes that leads to adaptive and
effective behavioral selection." Our emphasis is on understanding the biological and neural …

The human brain is a biological system produced by the evolutionary process, and so
cognitive neuroscience is itself a branch of modem evolutionary biology. Accordingly …

The human brain is a biological system produced by the evolutionary process, and thus,
cognitive neuroscience is itself a branch of evolutionary biology. Accordingly, cognitive …

Vision gives primates a wealth of information useful to manipulate the environment, but at
the same time it can easily overwhelm their computational resources. Active vision is a key …

The purpose of the attention schema theory is to explain how an information-processing
device, the brain, arrives at the claim that it possesses a non-physical, subjective awareness …

During natural behavior humans continuously adjust their gaze by moving head and eyes,
yielding rich dynamics of the retinal input. Sensory coding models, however, typically …

The goal of research in evolutionary psychology is to discover and understand the design of
the human mind. Evolutionary psychology is an approach to psychology, in which …

In this article, we challenge the usefulness of “attention” as a unitary construct and/or neural
system. We point out that the concept has too many meanings to justify a single term, and …

Our understanding of the human mind has radically changed in recent years--from the
unified mind once envisioned by René Descartes over three hundred years ago to a new …