Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside
Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside
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DOI：
10.1177/0963721420917687
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发表时间：
2020-05-08
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Eisthen, Heather L.
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作者：
Cesario, Joseph;Johnson, David J.;Eisthen, Heather L.
心理学中一个普遍存在的误解是：（1）随着脊椎动物的进化，“更新的”大脑结构被添加到现有的“旧的”大脑结构上;（B）这些更新、更复杂的结构赋予动物更新、更复杂的心理功能、行为灵活性和语言。这种观点虽然在心理学入门教科书中得到广泛认同，但长期以来一直受到神经生物学家的质疑，并与研究神经系统进化的人在这些问题上的明确一致意见形成鲜明对比。我们通过描述更准确的神经进化模型，使心理学家在这个问题上保持最新状态，我们提供了这种不准确的观点如何阻碍心理学进步的例子。我们敦促心理学家放弃这种对人类大脑的错误看法。
A widespread misconception in much of psychology is that (a) as vertebrate animals evolved, "newer" brain structures were added over existing "older" brain structures, and (b) these newer, more complex structures endowed animals with newer and more complex psychological functions, behavioral flexibility, and language. This belief, although widely shared in introductory psychology textbooks, has long been discredited among neurobiologists and stands in contrast to the clear and unanimous agreement on these issues among those studying nervous-system evolution. We bring psychologists up to date on this issue by describing the more accurate model of neural evolution, and we provide examples of how this inaccurate view may have impeded progress in psychology. We urge psychologists to abandon this mistaken view of human brains.