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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0258986
	Memory for medicinal plants remains in ancient and modern environments suggesting an evolved adaptedness
	Brito Moura, Joelson Moreno; da Silva, Risoneide Henriques; Ferreira Junior, Washington Soares; da Silva, Taline Cristina; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino
通讯作者	Albuquerque, UP (corresponding author)，Univ Fed Pernambuco, Dept Bot, Recife, PE, Brazil.
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2021
卷号	16 期号:10
英文摘要	Adaptive memory is the propensity of human memory to easily store and retrieve important information to deal with challenges related to the Pleistocene. Recent evidence shows that humans have had a multiregional evolution across the African continent, including the rainforests and deciduous forests; however, there is little evidence regarding the implications of these origins and the relevant and recurring challenges of these environments on survival processing advantage in memory. In this study, we conducted an experiment with volunteers to analyze whether adaptive memory operates in the retrieval of important information to solve challenges of using medicinal plants to treat diseases in the ancestral environments of the savanna, rainforests, and deciduous forests compared to the modern environments of desert, tundra, coniferous forest, and urban areas. We used simulated survival environments and asked volunteers (30 per simulated scenario) to imagine themselves sick in one of these environments, and needing to find medicinal plants to treat their disease. The volunteers rated the relevance of 32 words to solve this challenge, followed by a surprise memory test. Our results showed no ancestral priority in recalling relevant information, as both ancestral and modern environments showed a similar recall of relevant information. This suggests that the evolved cognitive apparatus allows human beings to survive and can create survival strategies to face challenges imposed in various environments. We believe that this is only possible if the human mind operates through a flexible cognitive mechanism. This flexibility can reflect, for example, the different environments that the first hominids inhabited and the different dangerous situations that they faced.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000750774900030
WOS关键词	ADAPTIVE MEMORY ; EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY ; JEBEL IRHOUD ; ADVANTAGE ; CONTEXT ; MOROCCO ; FOSSILS ; AGE
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/375888
作者单位	[Brito Moura, Joelson Moreno; da Silva, Risoneide Henriques] Univ Fed Rural Pernambuco, Dept Biol, Recife, PE, Brazil; [Brito Moura, Joelson Moreno; da Silva, Risoneide Henriques; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino] Univ Fed Pernambuco, Dept Bot, Recife, PE, Brazil; [Ferreira Junior, Washington Soares] Univ Pernambuco, Lab Invest Bioculturais Semiarido, Petrolina, PE, Brazil; [da Silva, Taline Cristina] Univ Estadual Alagoas, Dept Biol, Santana Do Ipanema, Alagoas, Brazil
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Brito Moura, Joelson Moreno,da Silva, Risoneide Henriques,Ferreira Junior, Washington Soares,et al. Memory for medicinal plants remains in ancient and modern environments suggesting an evolved adaptedness[J],2021,16(10).
APA	Brito Moura, Joelson Moreno,da Silva, Risoneide Henriques,Ferreira Junior, Washington Soares,da Silva, Taline Cristina,&Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino.(2021).Memory for medicinal plants remains in ancient and modern environments suggesting an evolved adaptedness.PLOS ONE,16(10).
MLA	Brito Moura, Joelson Moreno,et al."Memory for medicinal plants remains in ancient and modern environments suggesting an evolved adaptedness".PLOS ONE 16.10(2021).