Evolutionary processes and mother-child attachment in intentional change. Issue 4 (27th August 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ho, S. Shaun; Torres-Garcia, Adrianna; Swain, James E.
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 37:Issue 4(2014)
• Page Start: 426
• Page End: 427
• Publication Date: 2014-08-27
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13003336
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="normal"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>Behavioral change may occur through evolutionary processes such as running stochastic evolutionary algorithms, with a fitness function to determine a winning solution from many. A science of intentional change will therefore require identification of fitness functions – causal mechanisms of adaptation – that can be acquired only with analytical approaches. Fitness functions may be subject to early-life experiences with parents, which influence some of the very same brain circuits that may mediate behavioral change through interventions.</p> </abstract>