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Animal thinking : contemporary issues in comparative cognition /

"Do animals have cognitive maps? Do they possess knowledge? Do they plan for the future? Do they understand that others have mental lives of their own? This volume provides a state-of-the-art assessment of animal cognition, with experts from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ecology, and ev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Ernst Strüngmann Forum Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Otros Autores: Menzel, Randolf, 1940- (Editor ), Fischer, Julia, 1966- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2011]
Colección:Strüngmann Forum reports.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.