Research: HUMAN Pillar
Research Lines of the HUMAN Pillar
CRAI develops integrated scientific frameworks for the study of cognitive evolution, neurobiological regulation, and human variability within dynamic ecological and cultural contexts.
Evolution · Regulation · Cognitive Variability · Anthropogenesis
The research lines of the HUMAN Pillar converge in the analysis of the human mind as an emergent biological system whose stability and transformation arise from state- and environment-dependent regulatory processes.
The pillar examines how cognitive and behavioural profiles are configured along specific evolutionary trajectories, integrating neurobiological, ecological, and biocultural dimensions within a non-reductionist interpretative framework.
Research articulates evolutionary neurobiology, regulatory theory, and comparative analysis of cognitive configurations in order to model patterns of human variability as functional expressions of adaptive architectures.
This framework enables the reinterpretation of neurodiversity and behavioural fluctuations as manifestations of complex regulatory dynamics, ensuring conceptual coherence, evolutionary depth, and interdisciplinary projection.
Evolutionary Foundations of the Mind and Human Variability
This research line analyses the emergence and diversification of the human mind from an integrative evolutionary perspective.
It examines how the interaction between neurobiology, ecological environment, and cultural construction has given rise to distinct cognitive and behavioural profiles throughout anthropogenesis.
Its objective is to understand human variability as part of a dynamic evolutionary continuum, providing a structural framework for interpreting neurobiological diversity without reducing it to normative deviations.
Key words:
Human evolution; Anthropogenesis; Neurobiology; Cognitive variability; Evolutionary psychology; Plasticity; Neurodiversity.
State-Dependent Regulation and Neurocognitive Dynamics
This research line investigates how dynamic regulatory states modulate cognitive and behavioural expression in changing contexts.
It analyses the interaction between neurophysiological activation, synaptic plasticity, and environmental factors as elements shaping attentional, emotional, and executive fluctuations across development and adulthood.
Its objective is to model intraindividual variability as a functional expression of adaptive regulatory architectures, providing an explanatory framework that moves beyond static or categorical approaches to the human mind.
Key words:
State-dependent regulation; Neurophysiology; Synaptic plasticity; Intraindividual variability; Cognitive dynamics; Neural activation; Regulatory models.
Biocultural Trajectories and Adaptive Cognitive Configurations
This research line examines the co-configuration of biological processes and cultural structures in the formation of human cognitive profiles.
It explores how ecological pressures, social organisation, and cultural transmission have interacted with neurobiological architecture to generate diverse mental configurations across different historical and environmental contexts.
Its objective is to integrate evolutionary and biocultural dimensions into a coherent explanatory model that understands cognitive diversity as the result of multiple, contextually situated adaptive trajectories.
Key words:
Biocultural coevolution; Cognitive adaptation; Ecological environment; Social organisation; Cultural transmission; Mental diversity; Evolutionary plasticity.
Strategic Projection
These research lines converge in the development of integrated models aimed at understanding the human mind and cognitive variability as expressions of evolutionary trajectories and dynamic regulatory architectures. Their articulation enables the projection of coherent interpretative frameworks with the potential to generate long-term scientific, educational, and conceptual developments in the study of anthropogenesis and neurodiversity.
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