Snake detector
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"LeDoux has also shown that certain specific triggers elicit fear-related responses in humans, no doubt through stored evolutionary mechanisms: the shape of the snake, for example, always gets the amygdala going." --The Monarchy of Fear "An evolved cognitive module—for instance a snake detector, a face-recognition device … is an adaptation to a range of phenomena that presented problems or opportunities in the ancestral environment of the species. Its function is to process a given type of stimuli or inputs—for instance snakes [or] human faces." --"The Cognitive Foundations of Cultural Stability and Diversity " (2004) by Dan Sperber and L. A. Hirschfeld |
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References
Mineka, S., and M. Cook. 1988. “Social Learning and the Acquisition of Snake Fear in Monkeys.” In Social Learning: Psychological and Biological Perspectives, ed. T. R. Zentall and J. B. G. Galef, 51–74. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
See also
- Fear processing in the brain
- Putting a cucumber next to a cat
