The cognitive animal : empirical and theoretical perspectives on animal cognition / edited by Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, and Gordon M. Burghardt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bekoff, Marc, editor.

Allen, Colin, editor.

Burghardt, Gordon M., 1941- editor.

Series:

A Bradford Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition in animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 482 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge The MIT Press 2002

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fifty-seven original essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of animal cognition. The contributors include cognitive ethologists, behavioral ecologists, experimental and developmental psychologists, behaviorists, philosophers, neuroscientists, computer scientists and modelers, field biologists, and others. The diversity of approaches is both philosophical and methodological, with contributors demonstrating various degrees of acceptance or disdain for such terms as "consciousness" and varying degrees of concern for laboratory experimentation versus naturalistic research. In addition to primates, particularly the nonhuman great apes, the animals discussed include antelopes, bees, dogs, dolphins, earthworms, fish, hyenas, parrots, prairie dogs, rats, ravens, sea lions, snakes, spiders, and squirrels. The topics include (but are not limited to) definitions of cognition, the role of anecdotes in the study of animal cognition, anthropomorphism, attention, perception, learning, memory, thinking, consciousness, intentionality, communication, planning, play, aggression, dominance, predation, recognition, assessment of self and others, social knowledge, empathy, conflict resolution, reproduction, parent-young interactions and caregiving, ecology, evolution, kin selection, and neuroethology.

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The inner life of earthworms: Darwin's argument and its implications / Eileen Crist

Crotalomorphism: a metaphor for understanding anthropomorphism by omission / Jesus Rivas and Gordon M. Burghardt

The cognitive defender: how ground squirrels assess their predators / Donald H. Owings

Jumping spider tricksters: deceit, predation, and cognition / Stim Wilcox and Robert Jackson

The ungulate mind / John A. Byers

Can honey bees create cognitive maps? / James L. Gould

Raven consciousness / Bernd Heinrich

Animal minds, human minds / Eric Saidel

Comparative developmental evolutionary psychology and cognitive ethology: contrasting but compatible research programs / Sue Taylor Parker

Cognitive ethology at the end of neuroscience / Dale Jamieson

Learning and memory without a brain / James W. Grau

Cognitive modulation of sexual behavior / Michael Domjan

Cognition and emotion in concert in human and nonhuman animals / Ruud van den Bos, Bart B. Houx, and Berry M. Spruijt

Constructing animal cognition / William Timberlake

Genetics, plasticity, and the evolution of cognitive processes / Gordon M. Burghardt

Spatial behavior, food storing, and the modular mind / Sara J. Shettleworth

Spatial and social cognition in corvids: an evolutionary approach / Russell P. Balda and Alan C. Kamil

Environmental complexity, signal detection, and the evolution of cognition / Peter Godfrey-Smith

Cognition as an independent variable: virtual ecology / Alan C. Kamil and Alan B. Bond

Synthetic ethology: a new tool for investigating animal cognition / Bruce MacLennan

From cognition in animals to cognition in superorganisms / Charles E. Taylor

Consort turnovers as distributed cognition in olive baboons: a systems approach to mind / Deborah Forster

General signs / Edward A. Wasserman

The cognitive dolphin / Herbert L. Roitblat

Chimpanzee Ai and her son Ayumu: an episode of education by master-apprenticeship / Tetsuro Matsuzawa

The evolution and ontogeny of ordinal numerical ability / Elizabeth M. Brannon and Herbert S. Terrace

Domain-specific knowledge in human children and nonhuman primates: artifacts and foods / Laurie R. Santos, Marc D. Hauser, and Elizabeth S. Spelke

The cognitive sea lion: meaning and memory in the laboratory and in nature / Ronald J. Schusterman, Colleen Reichmuth Kastak, and David Kastak

Same-different concept formation in pigeons / Robert G. Cook

Categorization and conceptual behavior in nonhuman primates / Jacques Vauclair.

Cognitive and communicative abilities of grey parrots / Irene Maxine Pepperberg

Cognition and communication in prairie dogs / C.N. Slobodchikoff

Meaningful acoustic units in nonhuman primate vocal behavior / Cory T. Miller and Asif A. Ghazanfar

Exploring the cognitive world of the bottlenosed dolphin / Louis M. Herman

Chimpanzee signing: Darwinian realities and Cartesian delusions / Roger S. Fouts, Mary Lee A. Jensvold, and Deborah H. Fouts

Primate vocal and gestural communication / Michael Tomasello and Klaus Zuberbuhler

Gestural communication in olive baboons and domestic dogs / Barbara Smuts

Animal vocal communication: say what? / Drew Rendall and Michael J. Owren

Cracking the code: communication and cognition in birds / Christopher S. Evans

The mirror test / Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., James R. Anderson, and Daniel J. Shillito

When traditional methodologies fail: cognitive studies of great apes / Robert W. Shumaker and Karyl B. Swartz

Kinesthetic-visual matching, imitation, and self-recognition / Robert W. Mitchell

Darwin's continuum and the building blocks of deception / Guven Guzeldere, Eddy Nahmias, and Robert O. Deaner

Integrating two evolutionary models for the study of social cognition / Brian Hare and Richard Wrangham

Field studies of social cognition in spotted hyenas / Kay E. Holekamp and Anne L. Engh

The structure of social knowledge in monkeys / Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney

From the field to the laboratory and back again: culture and "social mind" in primates / Andrew Whiten

Evolutionary psychology and primate cognition / Richard W. Byrne

How smart does a hunter need to be? / Craig B. Stanford

Insight from Capuchin monkey studies: ingredients of, recipes for, and flaws in Capuchins' success / Elisabetta Visalberghi

A cognitive approach to the study of animal cooperation / Lee Alan Dugatkin and Michael S. Alfieri

Keeping in touch: play fighting and social knowledge / Sergio M. Pellis

The evolution of social play: interdisciplinary analyses of cognitive processes / Marc Bekoff and Colin Allen

The morals of animal minds / Lori Gruen

Eye gaze information-processing theory: a case study in primate cognitive neuroethology / Brian L. Keeley

The eyes, the hand, and the mind: behavioral and neurophysiological aspects of social cognition / Vittorio Gallese [and others]

Vigilance and perception of social stimuli: views from ethology and social neuroscience / Adrian Treves and Diego Pizzagalli

Afterword: what is it like? / Donald R. Griffin.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262268028

0262268027

9780585436876

0585436878

OCLC:

51959570