Discover published sets by community

An adaptation for identifying environmental regularities; involves region-specific brain activity.

Enhances communication skills, a hallmark of human social evolution; brain language centers co-evolved with this ability.

Memory storage and recall improve survival by retaining useful information; has a distributed neural representation.

Evolved as a survival mechanism to evaluate threats; involves the amygdala and prefrontal cortex.

Fosters social bonding and cooperation; associated with mirror neuron system development.

Essential for choosing advantageous actions; requires various brain regions, evolving for optimal resource allocation.

Critical for social interactions; the limbic system evolution reflects this importance.

Enhanced perception aids survival; has led to a complex visual cortex.

Ability to interpret sounds has adaptive value; linked to development of the auditory cortex.

Critical for locating resources and avoiding danger; the neural basis lies in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex.

Promotes survival by encouraging withdrawal from harm; involves nociceptors and the somatosensory cortex.

Procreation and gene dispersal drove evolution of complex attractiveness criteria; involves reward centers in the brain.

Allows for overcoming environmental challenges; relies on the prefrontal cortex and other higher cognition areas.

Imitation and teaching are effective for knowledge transfer; associated with the evolution of the mirror neuron system.

Promotes inclusive fitness through altruism among relatives; similar facial features are a cue used by the brain.

Ensures survival of offspring; evolution shaped neural mechanisms for attachment and caregiving.

Search for and exploitation of food resources; involves neural circuits for spatial memory, decision-making, and reward.

Combines multiple sensory inputs for a coherent picture of the environment; this process has neural correlates in multisensory areas.

Expands environmental manipulation capabilities; related to the development of particular brain regions such as the motor cortex.

Conserves energy and supports neural development; associated with the evolution of specific brainwave patterns.

Facilitates the selection of appropriate behaviors; evolved alongside social complexity and is linked to the prefrontal cortex.

Enables efficient information processing through mental grouping; evolution has shaped this cognitive shortcut.

Understanding that objects exist independently of perception; an important cognitive milestone influenced by neural maturation.

Regulates physiological processes on a roughly 24-hour cycle; has genetic components and is linked to environmental light cycles.