Combining local and global evolutionary trajectories of brain-behaviour relationships through game theory

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The study of the evolution of brain-behaviour relationships concerns understanding the causes and repercussions of cross- and within-species variability. Understanding such variability is a main objective of evolutionary and cognitive neuroscience, and it may help explaining the appearance of psychopathological phenotypes. Although brain evolution is related to the progressive action of selection and adaptation through multiple paths (e.g. mosaic vs. concerted evolution, metabolic vs. structural and functional constraints), a coherent, integrative framework is needed to combine evolutionary paths and neuroscientific evidence. Here, we review the literature on evolutionary pressures focusing on structural-functional changes and developmental constraints. Taking advantage of recent progress in neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience, we propose a twofold hypothetical model of brain evolution. Within this model, global and local trajectories imply rearrangements of neural subunits and subsystems and of behavioural repertoires of a species, respectively. We incorporate these two processes in a game in which the global trajectory shapes the structural-functional neural substrates (i.e. players), while the local trajectory shapes the behavioural repertoires (i.e. stochastic payoffs).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:52

Enthalten in:

The European journal of neuroscience - 52(2020), 9 vom: 23. Nov., Seite 4198-4213

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Di Plinio, Simone [VerfasserIn]
Ebisch, Sjoerd J H [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Brain networks
Brain systems
Brain-behaviour relationships
Evolution
Game theory
Graph theory
Individual differences
Integrative neuroscience
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 21.06.2021

Date Revised 21.06.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/ejn.14883

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311727751