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Cognition and the Study of Behavior | p. 3 |
What is comparative cognition about? | p. 4 |
Kinds of explanation for behavior | p. 10 |
Approaches to comparative cognition | p. 15 |
Summary | p. 23 |
Evolution, Behavior, and Cognition: A Primer | p. 26 |
Testing adaptation | p. 26 |
Mapping phylogeny | p. 31 |
Evolution, cognition, and the structure of behavior | p. 34 |
Evolution and the brain | p. 42 |
What does all this have to do with comparative psychology? | p. 49 |
Summarizing and looking ahead | p. 53 |
Fundamental Mechanisms | p. 55 |
Perception and Attention | p. 57 |
Specialized sensory systems | p. 57 |
How can we find out what animals perceive? | p. 62 |
Some psychophysical principles | p. 65 |
Signal detection theory | p. 66 |
Perception and evolution: Sensory ecology | p. 73 |
Search and attention | p. 77 |
Attention and foraging: The behavioral ecology of attention | p. 84 |
Summary | p. 94 |
Learning: Introduction and Pavlovian Conditioning | p. 96 |
General processes and ôconstraints on learningö | p. 96 |
A framework for thinking about learning | p. 98 |
When and how will learning evolve? | p. 102 |
Pavlovian conditioning: Conditions for learning | p. 105 |
What is learned? | p. 119 |
Conditional control of behavior: Occasion setting and modulation | p. 126 |
Effects of learning on behavior | p. 127 |
Concluding remarks | p. 134 |
Recognition Learning | p. 136 |
Habituation | p. 136 |
Perceptual learning | p. 146 |
Imprinting | p. 150 |
The behavioral ecology of social recognition: Recognizing kin | p. 161 |
Forms of recognition learning compared | p. 165 |
Discrimination, Classification, and Concepts | p. 167 |
Three examples | p. 167 |
Untrained responses to natural stimuli | p. 168 |
Classifying complex natural stimuli | p. 172 |
Discrimination learning | p. 179 |
Category discrimination and concepts | p. 190 |
Summary and conclusions | p. 208 |
Memory | p. 210 |
Functions and properties of memory | p. 211 |
Methods for studying memory in animals | p. 215 |
Conditions for memory | p. 222 |
Species differences in memory? | p. 230 |
Mechanisms: What is remembered and why is it forgotten? | p. 237 |
Memory and consciousness | p. 241 |
Summary and conclusions | p. 256 |
Physical Cognition | p. 259 |
Getting Around: Spatial Cognition | p. 261 |
Mechanisms for spatial orientation | p. 264 |
Modularity and integration | p. 283 |
Acquiring spatial knowledge: The conditions for learning | p. 288 |
Do animals have cognitive maps? | p. 296 |
Summary | p. 310 |
Timing | p. 313 |
Circadian rhythms | p. 313 |
Interval timing: Data | p. 323 |
Interval timing: Theories | p. 331 |
Summary: Two timing systems? | p. 338 |
Numerical Competence | p. 340 |
Numerosity discrimination and the analog magnitude system | p. 344 |
The object tracking system | p. 350 |
Ordinal comparison: Numerosity, serial position, and transitive inference | p. 355 |
Labels and language | p. 365 |
Numerical cognition and comparative psychology | p. 370 |
Cognition and the Consequences of Behavior: Foraging, Planning, Instrumental Learning, and Using Tools | p. 371 |
Foraging | p. 372 |
Long-term or short-term maximizing: Do animals plan ahead? | p. 389 |
Causal learning and instrumental behavior | p. 394 |
Using and understanding tools | p. 399 |
On causal learning and killjoy explanations | p. 413 |
Social Cognition | p. 415 |
Social Intelligence | p. 417 |
The social intelligence hypothesis | p. 418 |
The nature of social knowledge | p. 421 |
Intentionality and social understanding | p. 432 |
Theory of mind | p. 441 |
Cooperation | p. 455 |
Summary | p. 464 |
Social Learning | p. 466 |
Social learning in context | p. 468 |
Mechanisms: Social learning without imitation | p. 475 |
Mechanisms: Imitation | p. 482 |
Do nonhuman animals teach? | p. 497 |
Animal cultures? | p. 503 |
Summary and conclusions | p. 506 |
Communication and Language | p. 508 |
Some basic issues | p. 511 |
Natural communication systems | p. 516 |
Trying to teach human language to other species | p. 532 |
Language evolution and animal communication: New directions | p. 543 |
Summary and conclusions | p. 546 |
Summing Up and Looking Ahead | p. 548 |
Modularity and the animal mind | p. 549 |
Theory and method in comparative cognition | p. 551 |
Humans versus other species: Different in degree or kind? | p. 554 |
The future: Tinbergen's four questions, and a fifth one | p. 559 |
References | p. 563 |
Credits | p. 651 |
Author Index | p. 667 |
Subject Index | p. 685 |
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