Samuele Russo, Imad Eddine Tibermacine, Ahmed Tibermacine, Dounia Chebana, Abdelhakim Nahili, Janusz Starczewscki, Christian Napoli
Analyzing EEG patterns in young adults exposed to different acrophobia levels: a VR study
Frontiers in human neuroscience
paper contributes debate palaeoarchaeological community major timelag origin anatomically modern humans appearance typically human cultural behaviour humans take longat least 100 000 yearsto become behaviourally modern transition often explained change intrinsic cognitive competence modern humans often terms new capacity symbolic thought final perfection language cognitive breakthrough models satisfactory fail explain uneven palaeoanthropological record human competence many supposed signature capacities appear disappear supposed cognitive breakthrough many signature capacities disappear breakthrough instead seeing behavioural modernity simple reflection new kind mind paper presents niche construction conceptual model behavioural modernity humans became behaviourally modern could reliably transmit accumulated informational capital next generation transmit sufficient precision innovations preserved accumulated turn reliable accumulation culture depends construction learning environments intrinsic cognitive machinery argue model evolutionarily plausible elements model assembled incrementally without implausible selective scenarios ii model coheres broad palaeoarchaeological record iii model anthropologically ethnographically plausible iv model testable though coarse preliminary ways