Animal cognition : evolution, behavior and cognition / Clive D.L. Wynne, Monique A.R. Udell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wynne, Clive D. L., author.

Udell, Monique A. R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition in animals.

Behavior, Animal.

Cognition.

Medical Subjects:

Behavior, Animal.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

xix, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Red Globe Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Evolution, Adaptation, Cognition, and Behavior: An Introduction

On minds, thought, and intelligence in animals

Historical background: Darwin, Wallace, and the minds of beasts

A cautionary tale and a canon

Clever Hans: the horse with the intelligence of a 14-year-old child

Lloyd Morgan's canon: the most awesome weapon in animal psychology

Now and the future

Further Reading

Web sources

2. Other Ways of Seeing the World

Vision

The pigeon's eye view of the world: a case study in animal vision

Smell

Hearing

Magnetic sensitivity

Electric sense

Conclusions

3. Concept Formation

Perceptual concepts

Object permanence

Relational concepts

Same-different

Stimulus equivalence

4. Time and Number

Time

Learning about time of day

Learning about short time intervals

Numbers

Relative number judgments: more or less

Absolute number

Counting

5. Cause and Effect

Pavlovian conditioning

Outline

Pavlovian conditioning through the animal kingdom

What is learned in Pavlovian conditioning?

Instrumental conditioning

Learning from consequences

Instrumental conditioning through the animal kingdom

What is learned in instrumental conditioning?

Biological predispositions and roadblocks

Summary and conclusions

6. Reasoning

Tool use

Insight

Reasoning by analogy

Series learning I: transitive inference

Series learning II: linear ordering

Fairness

7. Navigation

Spatial reasoning

Dead reckoning

Routes, landmarks, and beacons

The sun compass

Magnetoreception

Cognitive maps and shortcuts

Case studies

Using the sun compass

Magnetic compass

Odor maps

Distractions, side biases, and other considerations

Migration

8. Social Cognition and Self-Awareness

Self-recognition: is that me?

Studies on mirror recognition

Sensitivity to the actions of others

What are you looking at? Sensitivity to the gaze of others

Theory of mind

Do you see what I see?

9. Social Learning

Social influence

Social facilitation

Stimulus and local enhancement

Affordance learning

Social learning: what is it, why do it?

Imitation

the sincerest form of flattery

True imitation

Do as I do

Model-rival method

Emulation

Teaching

Teaching in meerkats

Teaching in ants

Teaching in apes

10. Remembering

Simple memories

Short-term memory

Capacity

Duration

Serial order effects

Long-term memory

Food storing birds

Implicit and explicit memory

Metamemory

knowledge of what one remembers

Episodic memory: what-when-where

What causes forgetting?

11. Animal Communication in the Wild

The dance of the honeybee

Chicken alarm calls

Vervet monkeys of Kenya

Diana monkeys eavesdropping on other species' signals

Dolphins

The function and evolution of referential calls

12. Language

Ape language studies

Words

Sentences

Kanzi

Language training with other species

Communicating with dolphins

Irene Pepperberg and Alex

13. Conclusions and Comparisons

Brain size

Learning set

Taking the person out of animal personality

How to understand cognitive differences between species

Further Reading.

Notes:

Previous edition: 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-379) and index.

ISBN:

9781137611260

113761126X

OCLC:

1197762670

Publisher Number:

99986941805