Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior
Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior
- ISBN 13:
9780195110470
- ISBN 10:
0195110471
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/17/1998
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Newer Edition
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Summary
How do animals perceive the world, learn, remember, search for food or mates, and find their way around? Do any non-human animals count, imitate one another, use a language, or think as we do? What use is cognition in nature and how might it have evolved? Historically, research on suchquestions has been fragmented between psychology, where the emphasis has been on theoretical models and lab experiments, and biology, where studies focus on evolution and the adaptive use of perception, learning, and decision-making in the field. Cognition, Evolution and the Study of Behavior integrates research from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research about animal cognition in the broadest sense, from species-specific adaptations in fish to cognitive mapping in rats and honeybeesto theories of mind for chimpanzees. As a major contribution to the emerging discipline of comparative cognition, the book is an invaluable resource for all students and researchers in psychology, zoology, behavioral neuroscience. It willalso interest general readers curious about the details of howand why animals--including humans--process, retain, and use information as they do.