#418 Frederick Coolidge: Neuropsychology, Cognitive Archaeology, and Human Evolution
RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 11th 2020.
Dr. Frederick Coolidge is Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of Undergraduate Education in Psychology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He teaches introductory and advanced undergraduate statistics, cognitive evolution, evolutionary neuropsychology, abnormal psychology, and sleep and dreams. He has received three teaching awards including the lifetime designation, University of Colorado Presidential Teaching Scholar, and he received the UCCS Letters, Arts, and Sciences Annual Outstanding Research and Creative Works Award, in 2004, and the UCCS Annual Faculty Award for Excellence in Research in 2006. For the month of March 2015, he was appointed Senior Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, Keble College, UK. For the past 6 years, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India, teaching courses on brain evolution and sleep and dreams. He’s the coeditor of Squeezing Minds From Stones: Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind.
In this episode, we talk about neuropsychology, cognitive archaeology, and paleoanthropology. We start with neuropsychology, evolutionary neuropsychology, evolutionary psychology, and cognitive archaeology. We also talk a lot about Neanderthals and H. sapiens, and their relationship, migrations, sociality, and language.
Time Links:
(Evolutionary) Neuropsychology
Studying the evolution of cognition
Neanderthals, their relationship with H. sapiens and their extinction
Inferring cognitive abilities from artifacts
The ways we learn how stone tools were produced
More on Neanderthals
Language and sociality
Are modern hunter-gatherers good models of ancient societies?
The denisovans
Migrations of Neanderthals and H. sapiens
Is our cognition the same as our ancestors’?
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Follow Dr. Coolidge’s work:
Website: https://bit.ly/35jKMPm
Research: https://bit.ly/2UvIwOV
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/38wU5gH
Squeezing Minds From Stones: https://amzn.to/3ePFj5M
Evolutionary Neuropsychology: https://amzn.to/36siCAR