Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition

A foremost scholar in comparative cognition--a discipline closely connected to behavioral biology, evolution, and cognitive neuroscience--author Sara J. Shettleworth delivers a focused treatment of the essentials in writing that is both lucid and captivating.

List of contents

• Series Introduction


• Preface


• Chapter 1. What Is Comparative Cognition About?


• "From Darwin to Behaviorism": A Little History


• Research in the Twenty-First Century: Tool-Using Crows


• How This Book Is Organized


• Chapter 2. Basic Processes


• Perception and Attention


• Memory


• Associative Learning


• Discrimination, Classification, and Concepts


• Chapter 3. Physical Cognition


• Spatial Cognition: How Do Animals Find Their Way Around?


• Two Timing Systems


• Numerical Cognition


• Putting It Together: Foraging and Planning


• Using Tools


• Chapter 4. Social Cognition


• Social Behavior: The Basics


• Social Learning


• Communication


• Chapter 5. Comparative Cognition and Human Uniqueness


• Different in Degree or Kind?


• Clues from Modularity and Development


• References


• Index

About the author

Sara J. Shettleworth, Professor Emerita in the Departments of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto, is the recipient of the Comparative Cognition Society's 2008 Research Award and a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and Royal Society of Canada. Her research on learning and memory in a variety of species of birds and mammals has been published in more than 100 articles and book chapters. Her widely-read book Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior (OUP, 2010) is now in its second edition.

Summary

A foremost scholar in comparative cognition--a discipline closely connected to behavioral biology, evolution, and cognitive neuroscience--author Sara J. Shettleworth delivers a focused treatment of the essentials in writing that is both lucid and captivating.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Shettleworth, Sara J. Shettleworth, Sara J. ( Shettleworth, Sara J. (University of Toronto) Shettleworth, Sara/ Bloom Shettleworth, Shettleworth Sara J.
• Assisted by: Paul Bloom (Editor of the series), Bloom Paul (Editor of the series), Lynn Nadel (Editor of the series), Nadel Lynn (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780195343106
• ISBN: 978-0-19-534310-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Fundamentals in Cognition; Fundamentals in Cognition
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Clinical & internal medicine, Clinical and internal medicine, Cognitivism, cognitive theory