This article aims to present a brief history of conceptions of mind in the last decades and to discuss evolutionary models of mind. The cognitivist movement, in which the mind is the protagonist, and evolutionary psychology, in which the philogenetic history of mind is contemplated, are focused. Different models, modular and including central processes, are presented. The importance of considering ontogenesis is discussed, and two ontogenetic perspectives of the mind are presented. The conclusion about the direction of the contemporary efforts of comprehension of the human mind is optimistic, with the proposition of integration of aspects of the models presented.
mind; cognition; architecture of mind; evolutionary psychology