Primate neuroethology / edited by Michael L. Platt, Asif A. Ghazanfar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Platt, Michael L.

Ghazanfar, Asif A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primates--Nervous system.

Primates.

Primates--Psychology.

Primates--Behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (683 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edited volume is the first of its kind to bridge the epistemological gap between primate ethologists and primate neurobiologists. Leading experts in several fields will review work ranging from primate foraging behavior to the neurophysiology of motor control, from vocal communication to the functions of the auditory cortex. This synthesis of the cognitive, ethological and neurobiological approaches to primate behavior will yield the richest understanding of our primate cousins to date and will shed light on the evolutionary development of human behavior and cognition. The book contains c

Contents:

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Primate Classification and Diversity; 3. Primate Locomotor Evolution: Biomechanical Studies of Primate Locomotion and Their Implications for Understanding Primate Neuroethology; 4. Foraging Cognition in Nonhuman Primates; 5. Primate Vocal Communication; 6. Rational Decision Making in Primates: The Bounded and the Ecological; 7. Primate Social Cognition: Thirty Years After Premack and Woodruff; 8. Behavioral Signatures of Numerical Cognition; 9. The Foundations of Transdisciplinary Behavioral Science; 10. Sensory and Motor Systems in Primates

11. Vision: A Neuroethological Perspective12. Circuits of Visual Attention; 13. Vocalizations as Auditory Objects: Behavior and Neurophysiology; 14. Encoding and Beyond in the Motor Cortex; 15. Looking at Sounds: Neural Mechanisms in the Primate Brain; 16. Circuits of Emotion in the Primate Brain; 17. Neurophysiological Correlates of Reward Learning; 18. Associative Memory in the Medial Temporal Lobe; 19. Neurobiology of Social Behavior; 20. Neural Bases of Numerical Cognition; 21. Executive Control Circuits; 22. Reinventing Primate Neuroscience for the Twenty-First Century

23. Ethologically Relevant Movements Mapped on the Motor Cortex24. Object Recognition: Physiological and Computational Insights; 25. The Primate Frontal and Temporal Lobes and Their Role in Multisensory Vocal Communication; 26. Neuroethology of Attention in Primates; 27. Neuroethology of Decision Making; 28. Out of Our Minds: The Neuroethology of Primate Strategic Behavior; 29. The Comparative Neuropsychology of Tool Use in Primates with Specific Reference to Chimpanzees and Capuchin Monkeys; 30. Evolution of an Intellectual Mind in the Primate Brain; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I

JK; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-933890-6

0-19-992924-6

1-282-49067-2

9786612490675

0-19-971684-6

OCLC:

550523174