Table of Contents:
  • Section I. Visuospatial Cognition and Evolution : 1. Somatosensation and body perception: the integration of afferent signals in multisensory cognitive processes / Rochelle Ackerley
  • 2. Perception by effortful touch and a lawful approach to (the evolution of) perceiving and acting / Jeffrey B. Wagman, Julia J.C. Blau and Tyler Duffrin
  • 3. Evolutionary perspective on peripersonal space and perception / Mathilda Froesel, Suliann Ben Hamed and Justine Cléry
  • 4. The body in the world: tools and somato-centric maps in the primate brain / Banty Tia, Rafael Bretas, Yumiko Yamazaki and Atsushi Iriki
  • 5. Parietal cortex and cumulative technological culture / Giovanni Federico and Franc̦ois Osiurak
  • 6. Body-tool integration: past, present, and future / Luke E. Miller and Marie Martel
  • Section II. Visuospatial Behaviour and Cognitive Archaeology : 7. The evolution of the parietal lobes in the genus Homo: the fossil evidence / Emiliano Bruner
  • 8. Parietal lobe expansion, its consequences for working memory, and the evolution of modern thinking / Frederick L. Coolidge
  • 9. Experimental neuroarchaeology of visuospatial behavior / Dietrich Stout
  • 10. Cognitive archaeology, attention, and visual behavior / María Silva-Gago and Emiliano Bruner
  • 11. Handling prehistory: tools, electrophysiology, and haptics / Annapaola Fedato and Emiliano Bruner
  • 12. A comparative approach to evaluating the biomechanical complexity of the freehand knapping swing / Erin Marie Williams-Hatala and Neil T. Roach
  • 13. Psychometrics, visuospatial abilities, and cognitive archaeology / Emiliano Bruner, María Silva-Gago, Annapaola Fedato, Manuel Martín-Loeches and Roberto Colom.