Comparative Cognition Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence

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

• ISBN13: 9780195167665
• ISBN10: 019516766X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2099-11-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Comparative Cognition celebrates comparative cognitions first quarter century with a state-of-the-art collection of chapters covering the broad realm of the scientific study of animal intelligence. It will be an invaluable resource for students and professional researchers in all areas of psychology and neuroscience.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Comparative Cognition: A Natural Science Approach to the Study of Animal Intelligence	p. 3
Perception and Illusion
Grouping and Segmentation of Visual Objects by Baboons (Papio papio) and Humans (Homo sapiens)	p. 15
Seeing What Is Not There: Illusion, Completion, and Spatiotemporal Boundary Formation in Comparative Perspective	p. 29
The Cognitive Chicken: Visual and Spatial Cognition in a Nonmammalian Brain	p. 53
The Comparative Psychology of Absolute Pitch	p. 71
Attention and Search
Reaction-Time Explorations of Visual Perception, Attention, and Decision in Pigeons	p. 89
Selective Attention, Priming, and Foraging Behavior	p. 106
Attention as It Is Manifest Across Species	p. 127
Memory Processes
The Questions of Temporal and Spatial Displacement in Animal Cognition	p. 145
Memory Processing	p. 164
Spatial Cognition
Arthropod Navigation: Ants, Bees, Crabs, Spiders Finding Their Way	p. 189
Comparative Spatial Cognition: Processes in Landmark- and Surface-Based Place Finding	p. 210
Properties of Time-Place Learning	p. 229
Timing and Counting
Behavioristic, Cognitive, Biological, and Quantitative Explanations of Timing	p. 249
Sensitivity to Time: Implications for the Representation of Time	p. 270
Time and Number: Learning, Psychophysics, Stimulus Control, and Retention	p. 285
Conceptualization and Categorization
Relational Discrimination Learning in Pigeons	p. 307
A Modified Feature Theory as an Account of Pigeon Visual Categorization	p. 325
Category Structure and Typicality Effects	p. 343
Similarity and Difference in the Conceptual Systems of Primates: The Unobservability Hypothesis	p. 363
Rule Learning, Memorization Strategies, Switching Attention Between Local and Global Levels of Perception, and Optimality in Avian Visual Categorization	p. 388
Responses and Acquired Equivalence Classes	p. 405
Pattern Learning
Spatial Patterns: Behavioral Control and Cognitive Representation	p. 425
The Structure of Sequential Behavior	p. 439
Truly Random Operant Responding: Results and Reasons	p. 459
The Simultaneous Chain: A New Look at Serially Organized Behavior	p. 481
Tool Fabrication and Use
Cognitive Adaptations for Tool-Related Behavior in New Caledonian Crows	p. 515
What Is Challenging About Tool Use? The Capuchin's Perspective	p. 529
Problem Solving and Behavioral Flexibility
Intelligences and Brains: An Evolutionary Bird's Eye View	p. 555
How Do Dolphins Solve Problems?	p. 580
The Comparative Cognition of Caching	p. 602
The Neural Basis of Cognitive Flexibility in Birds	p. 619
Social Cognition Processes
Chimpanzee Social Cognition in Early Life: Comparative-Developmental Perspective	p. 639
Stimuli Signaling Rewards That Follow a Less-Preferred Event Are Themselves Preferred: Implications for Cognitive Dissonance	p. 651
Postscript: An Essay on the Study of Cognition in Animals	p. 668
Author Index	p. 679
Subject Index	p. 694
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