Lefebvre Louis
Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Behav Processes. 2015 Aug;117:92-6. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.05.006. Epub 2014 Jun 5.
Neuroecologists have been criticized for deriving mechanistic explanations about brains and cognition from functional results. Historically, it appears however that the first functional predictions about adaptive hippocampal specialization for spatial memory of stored food were preceded, not followed, by the mechanistic paradigm of massive modularity that was dominant in the 1990s. More attention is paid nowadays to domain general aspects of cognition and to neural connectivity. Attention is also now given to evo devo principles of brain organization, which suggest conserved routes to evolutionary changes in the brain driven by conserved developmental schedules. Knowledge gained in answering each of Tinbergen's four questions is thus useful in making predictions concerning the other ones. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: In Honor of Jerry Hogan.
神经生态学家因从功能结果中推导关于大脑和认知的机制性解释而受到批评。然而，从历史上看，关于储存食物空间记忆的适应性海马体特化的首批功能预测，是在20世纪90年代占主导地位的大规模模块化机制范式之前，而非之后出现的。如今，人们更多地关注认知的领域一般性方面以及神经连接性。现在也开始关注大脑组织的演化发育原则，这些原则表明，由保守的发育时间表驱动的大脑进化变化存在保守路径。因此，在回答廷伯根的四个问题中的每一个时所获得的知识，对于预测其他问题是有用的。本文是名为：纪念杰里·霍根 的特刊的一部分。
