You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
Timeline
X Demographics
Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
Title |
Delegation to automaticity: the driving force for cognitive evolution?
|
---|---|
Published in |
Frontiers in Neuroscience, April 2014
|
DOI | 10.3389/fnins.2014.00090 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
J. M. Shine, R. Shine |
Abstract |
The ability to delegate control over repetitive tasks from higher to lower neural centers may be a fundamental innovation in human cognition. Plausibly, the massive neurocomputational challenges associated with the mastery of balance during the evolution of bipedality in proto-humans provided a strong selective advantage to individuals with brains capable of efficiently transferring tasks in this way. Thus, the shift from quadrupedal to bipedal locomotion may have driven the rapid evolution of distinctive features of human neuronal functioning. We review recent studies of functional neuroanatomy that bear upon this hypothesis, and identify ways to test our ideas. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 13 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
As of 1 July 2024, you may notice a temporary increase in the numbers of X profiles with Unknown location. Click here to learn more.
As of 1 July 2024, you may notice a temporary increase in the numbers of X profiles with Unknown location. Click here to learn more.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
United States | 2 | 15% |
Austria | 2 | 15% |
Greece | 1 | 8% |
Unknown | 8 | 62% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Members of the public | 9 | 69% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 23% |
Scientists | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 109 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Australia | 2 | 2% |
Hungary | 1 | <1% |
Austria | 1 | <1% |
Brazil | 1 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
United States | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 101 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Researcher | 20 | 18% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 18% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 17% |
Other | 13 | 12% |
Student > Bachelor | 7 | 6% |
Other | 10 | 9% |
Unknown | 21 | 19% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Psychology | 24 | 22% |
Neuroscience | 16 | 15% |
Social Sciences | 12 | 11% |
Arts and Humanities | 7 | 6% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 6% |
Other | 17 | 16% |
Unknown | 27 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 55. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 March 2022.
All research outputs
#822,746
of 26,629,686 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Neuroscience
#350
of 11,989 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,238
of 243,206 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Neuroscience
#6
of 102 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,629,686 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 11,989 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 243,206 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 102 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its contemporaries.