Cognitive Ecology - The Evolutionary Ecology of Information Processing and Decision Making

1. Introduction Reuven Dukas 2. Neural representation and the evolution of signal form Magnus Enquist and Anthony Arak 3. Constraints on information processing and their effects on behavior Reuven Dukas 4. Evolutionary ecology of learning Reuven Dukas 5. The cognitive ecology of song communication and song learning in the song sparrow Michael D. Beecher, S. Elizabeth Campbell amp J. Cully Nordby 6. Cognitive ecology of navigation Fred Dyer 7. The ecology and neurobiology of spatial memory David .F. Sherry 8. Risk-sensitive foraging: decision-making in variable environments. Melissa Bateson and Alex Kacelnik 9. Behavioral decisions about foraging and predator avoidance Ronald C. Ydenberg 10. Evolutionary ecology of partner choice Lee A. Dugatkin amp Andrew Sih 11. Cognitive ecology: prospects Reuven Dukas

Summary

Examines how the environment shapes the way an animal processes information and makes decisions, and how constraints imposed on nervous systems affect an animal's activities. To help answer these questions, this text integrates evolutionary ecology and cognitive science.

Product details

• Authors: Dukas, Reuven Dukas
• Assisted by: Reuven Dukas (Editor), Dukas Reuven (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.1998
• EAN: 9780226169330
• ISBN: 978-0-226-16933-0
• No. of pages: 430
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 595 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Animal behaviour, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Animal Ecology, Ethology and animal behaviour, Zoology and animal sciences, Evolution / Evolutionary biology