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Adaptive memory: Ancestral priorities and the mnemonic value of survival processing
2010
Cognitive Psychology
Evolutionary psychologists often propose that humans carry around "stone-age" brains, along with a toolkit of cognitive adaptations designed originally to solve hunter-gatherer problems. This perspective predicts that optimal cognitive performance might sometimes be induced by ancestrally-based problems, those present in ancestral environments, rather than by adaptive problems faced more commonly in modern environments. This prediction was examined in four experiments using the survival
doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.01.005
pmid:20206924
fatcat:rceozfm4kjeczp36gg55hxggnq