Ulteriori informazioni
Zusatztext Excellent book...Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Edward A. Wasserman, Ph.D., is Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, Iowa Center for Developmental and Learning Sciences, The University of Iowa. Thomas Zentall, Ph.D., is DiSilvestro Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky. Klappentext This comprehensive volume illustrates why an understanding of animal intelligence is essential in disclosing the nature of minds other than our own making it a fascinating volume for anyone curious about the state of modern comparative cognition. Zusammenfassung This comprehensive volume illustrates why an understanding of animal intelligence is essential in disclosing the nature of minds other than our own making it a fascinating volume for anyone curious about the state of modern comparative cognition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents 1. Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition Edward A. Wasserman and Thomas R. Zentall I. Perception and Illusion 2. Grouping and Segmentation in human and nonhuman primates Joël Fagot, Isabelle Barbet, and Carole Parron 3. Seeing What Is Not There: Illusion, Completion, and Spatiotemporal Boundary Formation in Comparative Perspective Kazuo Fujita 4. The Cognitive Chicken: Visual and Spatial Cognition in a Nonmammalian Brain Giorgio Vallortigara 5. New Perspectives on Absolute Pitch in Birds and Mammals Ronald G. Weisman, Douglas J. K. Mewhort, Marisa Hoeschele, and Christopher B. Sturdy II. Attention and Search 6. Reaction-time Explorations of Visual Perception, Attention, and Decision in Pigeons Donald S. Blough 7. The Competition for Attention in Humans and Other Animals David A. Washburn and Lauren A. Taglialatela 8. Establishing frames of reference for finding hidden goals: The use of multiple spatial cues by nonhuman animals and people Brett Gibson III. Learning and Causation 9. Contemporary thought on the environmental cues that affect causal attribution Michael E. Young 10. Associative Accounts of Causality Judgments Martha Escobar and Ralph R. Miller 11. Rational Rats: Causal Inference and Representation Aaron P. Blaisdell and Michael R. Waldmann 12. Contrast: A More Parsimonious Account of Cognitive Dissonance Effects Thomas R. Zentall, Rebecca A. Singer, Tricia S. Clement, Andrea M. Friedrich, and Jerome Alessandri IV. Memory Processes 13. Methodological Issues in Comparative Memory Research Thomas R. Zentall 14. Memory Processing Anthony A. Wright 15. The Questions of Temporal and Spatial Displacement in Animal Cognition William A. Roberts 16. Animal Metacognition J. David Smith, Michael J. Beran, and Justin J. Couchman 17. A comparative analysis of episodic memory: Cognitive mechanisms and neural substrates H. Eichenbaum, Magdalena Sauvage, Norbert Fortin, Jonathan Robitsek, and Robert Komorowski 18. Spatial, Temporal, and Associative Behavioral Functions Associated with Different Subregions of the Hippocampus Raymond P. Kesner, Andrea M. Morris, and Christy S.S. Weeden V. Spatial Cognition 19. Arthropod Navigation: Ants, Bees, Crabs, Spiders Finding Their Way Ken Cheng 20. Comparative Spatial Cognition: Encoding of Geometric Information from Surfaces and Landmark Arrays. Debbie M. Kelly and Marcia L. Spetch 21. Corvid Caching: The Role of Cognition S. R. De Kort, N. J. Emery, and N. S. Clayton VI. Timing and Counting 22. Behavioristic, Cognitive, Biological, and Quantitative Explanations of Timing Russell M. Church 23. Sensitivity to Time: Implications for the Representation of Time Jonathon D. Crystal 24. Comparative cognition of number representation Dustin J. Merritt, Nicholas K. DeWind, and Elizabeth M. Brannon 2...
