title: Cave art: an early example of information processing.
abstract: This article suggests that ancient cave paintings are evidence of new important brain functions, or "evolutionary software," that facilitated the conceptual and motor processes needed to create a visual scene and render it graphically.
authors: Harvard Medical School, USA.
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authors: Miller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001072:Apraxias / Q000503:physiopathology; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002648:Child; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D049690:History, Ancient; D015186:Hominidae / Q000145:classification; D006801:Humans; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history*; D010296:Parietal Lobe; D013561:Symbolism; D014796:Visual Perception