Comparative Cognition Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence

by Wasserman, Edward A.; Zentall, Thomas R.

• ISBN13: 9780195167658
• ISBN10: 0195167651
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In 1978, Hulse, Fowler, and Honig published Cognitive Processes in Animal Behavior, an edited volume that was a landmark in the scientific study of animal intelligence. It liberated interest in complex learning and cognition from the grasp of the rigid theoretical structures of behaviorism that had prevailed during the previous four decades, and as a result, the field of comparative cognition was born. At long last, the study of the cognitive capacities of animals other than humans emerged as a worthwhile scientific enterprise. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, studies of animal intelligence spanned such wide-ranging topics as perception, spatial learning and memory, timing and numerical competence, categorization and conceptualization, problem solving, rule learning, and creativity. During the ensuing 25 years, the field of comparative cognition has thrived and grown, and public interest in it has risen to unprecedented levels. In their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence, researchers have studied animals from bees to chimpanzees. Sessions on comparative cognition have become common at meetings of the major societies for psychology and neuroscience, and in fact, research in comparative cognition has increased so much that a separate society, the Comparative Cognition Society, has been formed to bring it together. This volume celebrates comparative cognition's first quarter century with a state-of-the-art collection of chapters covering the broad realm of the scientific study of animal intelligence. Comparative Cognition will be an invaluable resource for students and professional researchers in all areas of psychology and neuroscience.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Comparative Cognition: A Natural Science Approach to the Study of Animal Intelligence	3	(12)
Edward A. Wasserman
Thomas R. Zentall
I. Perception and Illusion
Grouping and Segmentation of Visual Objects by Baboons (Papio papio) and Humans (Homo sapiens)	15	(14)
Joel Fagot
Isabelle Barbet
Seeing What Is Not There: Illusion, Completion, and Spatiotemporal Boundary Formation in Comparative Perspective	29	(24)
Kazuo Fujita
The Cognitive Chicken: Visual and Spatial Cognition in a Nonmammalian Brain	53	(18)
Giorgio Vallortigara
The Comparative Psychology of Absolute Pitch	71	(18)
Ronald G. Weisman
Mitchel T. Williams
Jerome S. Cohen
Milan G. Njegovan
Christopher B. Sturdy
II. Attention and Search
Reaction-Time Explorations of Visual Perception, Attention, and Decision in Pigeons	89	(17)
Donald S. Blough
Selective Attention, Priming, and Foraging Behavior	106	(21)
Alan C. Kamil
Alan B. Bond
Attention as It Is Manifest Across Species	127	(18)
David A. Washburn
Lauren A. Taglialatela
III. Memory Processes
The Question of Temporal and Spatial Displacement in Animal Cognition	145	(19)
William A. Roberts
Memory Processing	164	(25)
Anthony A. Wright
IV. Spatial Cognition
Arthropod Navigation: Ants, Bees, Crabs, Spiders Finding Their Way	189	(21)
Ken Cheng
Comparative Spatial Cognition: Processes in Landmark- and Surface-Based Place Finding	210	(19)
Marcia L. Spetch
Debbie M. Kelly
Properties of Time-Place Learning	229	(20)
Christina M. Thorpe
Donald M. Wilkie
V. Timing and Counting
Behavioristic, Cognitive, Biological, and Quantitative Explanations of Timing	249	(21)
Russell M. Church
Sensitivity to Time: Implications for the Representation of Time	270	(15)
Jonathon D. Crystal
Time and Number: Learning, Psychophysics, Stimulus Control, and Retention	285	(22)
J. Gregor Fetterman
VI. Conceptualization and Categorization
Relational Discrimination Learning in Pigeons	307	(18)
Robert G. Cook
Edward A. Wasserman
A Modified Feature Theory as an Account of Pigeon Visual Categorization	325	(18)
Ludwing Huber
Ulrike Aust
Category Structure and Typicality Effects	343	(20)
Masako Jitsumori
Similarity and Difference in the Conceptual Systems of Primates: The Unobservability Hypothesis	363	(25)
Jennifer Vonk
Daniel J. Povinelli
Rule Learning, Memorization Strategies, Switching Attention Between Local and Global Level of Perception, and Optimality in Avian Visual Categorization	388	(17)
Charles P. Shimp
Walter T. Herbrason
Thane Fremouw
Alyson L. Froehlich
Responses and Acquired Equivalence Classes	405	(20)
Peter J. Urcuioli
VII. Pattern Learning
Spatial Patterns: Behavioral Control and Cognitive Representation	425	(14)
Michael F. Brown
The Structure of Sequential Behavior	439	(20)
Stephen B. Fountain
Truly Random Operant Responding: Results and Reasons	459	(22)
Greg Jensen
Claire Miller
Allen Neuringer
The Simultaneous Chain: A New Look at Serially Organized Behavior	481	(34)
Herbert Terrace
VIII. Tool Fabrication and Use
Cognitive Adaptations for Tool-Related Behavior in New Caledonian Crows	515	(14)
Alex Kacelnik
Jackie Chappell
Ben Kenward
Alex A. S. Weir
What Is Challenging About Tool Use? The Capuchin's Perspective	529	(26)
Elisabetta Visalberghi
Dorothy Fragaszy
IX. Problem Solving and Behavioral Flexibility
Intelligences and Brains: An Evolutionary Bird's Eye View	555	(25)
Juan D. Delius
Julia A. M. Delius
How Do Dolphins Solve Problems?	580	(22)
Stan A. Kuczaj II
Rachel Thames Walker
The Comparative Cognition of Caching	602	(17)
S. R. De Kort
S. Tebbich
J. M. Dally
N. J. Emery
N. S. Clayton
The Neural Basis of Cognitive Flexibility in Birds	619	(20)
Shigeru Watanabe
X. Social Cognition Processes
Chimpanzee Social Cognition in Early Life: Comparative-Developmental Perspective	639	(12)
Masaki Tomonaga
Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi
Yuu Mizuno
Sanae Okamoto
Masami K. Yamaguchi
Daisuke Kosugi
Kim A. Bard
Masayuki Tanaka
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Stimuli Signaling Rewards That Follow a Less-Preferred Event Are Themselves Preferred: Implications for Cognitive Dissonance	651	(17)
Thomas R. Zentall
Tricia S. Clement
Andrea M. Friedrich
Kelly A. DiGian
Postscript: An Essay on the Study of Cognition in Animals	668	(11)
Stewart H. Hulse
Author Index	679	(15)
Subject Index	694