Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition
ISBN: 9780195343106 | 0195343107
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/15/2012
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With the growing accessibility of original journal articles and papers, a staggering number of professors teaching junior/senior level courses are turning away from the use of textbooks in favor of primary research papers. The Fundamentals of Cognition series covers the main topics in thefield of Cognitive Psychology, and will address the need professors have for a brief, yet detailed, overview of specific topics in cognitive psychology. The books in this series will serve as a unifying discussion of the topic and provide continuity and cohesio... MORE
| Series Introduction | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| What Is Comparative Cognition About? | p. 1 |
| "From Darwin to Behaviorism": A Little History | p. 2 |
| Research in the Twenty-First Century: Tool-Using Crows | p. 7 |
| How This Book Is Organized | p. 14 |
| Basic Processes | p. 17 |
| Perception and Attention | p. 18 |
| Memory | p. 20 |
| Associative Learn... MORE | p. 34 |
| Discrimination, Classification, and Concepts | p. 41 |
| Physical Cognition | p. 49 |
| Spatial Cognition: How Do Animals Find Their Way Around? | p. 49 |
| Two Timing Systems | p. 57 |
| Numerical Cognition | p. 61 |
| Putting It Together: Foraging and Planning | p. 66 |
| Using Tools | p. 73 |
| Social Cognition | p. 81 |
| Social Behavior: The Basics | p. 82 |
| Social Learning | p. 93 |
| Communication | p. 101 |
| Comparative Cognition and Human Uniqueness | p. 112 |
| Different in Degree or Kind? | p. 112 |
| Clues from Modularity and Development | p. 118 |
| References | p. 125 |
| Credits | p. 151 |
| Name Index | p. 155 |
| Subject Index | p. 163 |
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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.
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