
Animal Thinking : Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition.
Title:
Animal Thinking : Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition.
Author:
Menzel, Randolf.
ISBN:
9780262298988
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (355 pages)
Series:
Strüngmann Forum Reports
Contents:
Contents -- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum -- List of Contributors -- 1 Animal Thinking: An Introduction -- Navigation -- 2 Navigation and Communication in Honeybees -- 3 Navigating in a Three-Dimensional World -- 4 Making the Case for the Intelligence of Avian Navigation -- 5 Animal Navigation: A Synthesis -- Decision Making and Planning -- 6 Goal-Directed Behavior and Future Planning in Animals -- 7 Mechanisms for Decisions about the Future -- 8 Status of Nonhuman Memory Monitoring and Possible Roles in Planning and Decision Making -- 9 Planning, Memory, and Decision Making -- Communication -- 10 Where Is the Information in Animal Communication? -- 11 Communication in Social Insects: Sophisticated Problem Solving by Groups of Tiny-Brained Animals -- 12 Language and Episodic Sharing -- 13 Communication -- Knowledge -- 14 How Intelligent Is Machiavellian Behavior? -- 15 Simple Reactions to Nearby Neighbors and Complex Social Behavior in Primates -- 16 Cooperation in Nonhuman Primates: Function and Cognition -- 17 How Folk Psychology Ruined Comparative Psychology: And How Scrub Jays Can Save It -- 18 Social Knowledge -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
Experts from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ecology, and evolutionary biology assess the field of animal cognition.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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