Neurosciences Unlock the Secret of the First Abstract Engravings (IMAGE)

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Neurosciences Unlock the Secret of the First Abstract Engravings

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Top: Engraving discovered at the Blombos site (South Africa) dating back 75,000 years before the present. Center: Example of visual categories used in the experiment. Bottom: Lateral and inferior views of brain activations caused by the perception of engravings located in the occipital lobe and the ventral part of the temporal lobe (LH: left hemisphere, RH: right hemisphere, Inf: inferior view). These activations are comparable to those caused by the perception of everyday objects.

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Emmanuel Mellet & Francesco d'Errico

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