石质工业,现代工具和语言:通过fMRI的进化视角
Chloé Bryche1, Mathieu Lesourd2, Arthur Seye1
1Laboratoire d'Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France.
NeuroImage
|August 3, 2025
概括
人类使用工具依赖于技术推理. 神经成像显示,参与评估工具复杂性的前对对脑网络与机械复杂性的连接性增加,支持工具使用和语言的共同进化.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 认知科学 认知科学
- 考古学的考古学
背景情况:
- 工具使用是人类认知的标志,由技术推理支.
- 神经考古学证据表明,用于石器工具的前面对面网络,演变为现代工具网络.
- 左下额前环在工具使用和语言中的参与表明了共同进化,可能是由于等级结构.
研究的目的:
- 在工具评估过程中,研究机械复杂性如何影响前端对象活动.
- 为了确定石器和现代工具是否参与到一个共同的神经网络中.
- 探索技术推理的神经认知基础及其与语言演变的关系.
主要方法:
- 功能磁共振成像 (fMRI) 用于监测大脑活动.
- 参与者评估了三种复杂度级别的石器和现代工具的功能.
- 分析了特定大脑区域 (左侧PF和左侧骨干) 之间的功能连接.
主要成果:
- 增加的机械复杂性导致左侧区域PF和左侧部分操作器之间更强的功能连接.
- 石器和现代工具都激活了一个共同的神经网络.
- 发现前端对面连接与工具评估的复杂性相匹配.
结论:
- 前端对面脑网络连接力动态地与工具的机械复杂性进行调整.
- 一个共享的神经网络支持对古老和现代工具的评估.
- 层次处理可能是一个基本的计算原则,是工具使用和语言的共同演变的基础.
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