Avian cognition /

The cognitive abilities of birds are remarkable: hummingbirds integrate spatial and temporal information about food sources, day-old chicks have a sense of numbers, parrots can make and use tools, and ravens have sophisticated insights in social relationships. This volume describes the full range of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cate, Carel ten (Editor ), Healy, Sue (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Birds > Psychology.
Birds > Behavior.
Cognition in animals.
Oiseaux > Psychologie.
Oiseaux > Mœurs et comportement.
Cognition chez les animaux.
NATURE > Animals > Birds.
NATURE > Birdwatching Guides.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Ornithology.
Birds > Behavior
Birds > Psychology
Cognition in animals
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Avian Cognition
  • Why and What? / Carel ten Cate and Susan D. Healy
  • Spatial Cognition in Birds / James F. Reichert, Sebastian Schwarz and Debbie M. Kelly
  • Spatial Cognition and Ecology : Hummingbirds as a Case Study / Susan D. Healy and T. Andrew Hurly
  • Food Storing and Memory / David F. Sherry
  • Avian Cognition and the Evolution of Warning Signals / Candy Rowe, John Skelhorn and Christina G. Halpin
  • Social Learning and Innovation / Louis Lefebvre and Lucy M. Aplin
  • Solving Foraging Problems : Top-down and Bottom-up Perspectives on the Role of Cognition / Andrea S. Griffin and David Guez
  • Objects and Space in an Avian Brain / Giorgio Vallortigara and Cinzia Chiandetti
  • Physical Cognition and Tool Use in Birds / Alice Auersperg, Irmgard Teschke and Sabine Tebbich
  • Avian Numerical Cognition : A Review and Brief Comparisons to Non-Avian Species / Irene M. Pepperberg
  • Mechanisms of Perceptual Categorization in Birds / Ludwig Huber and Ulrike Aust
  • Relational Concept Learning in Birds / Leyre Castro and Edward A. Wasserman
  • The Linguistic Abilities of Birds / Carel ten Cate
  • Avian Vocal Perception : Bioacoustics and Perceptual Mechanisms / Neil McMillan, Marc T. Avery, Laurie L. Bloomfield, Lauren M. Guillette, Allison H. Hahn, Marisa Hoeschele and Christopher B. Sturdy
  • Sing Me Something Smart : Does Song Signal Cognition? / Neeltje J. Boogert
  • Avian Social Relations, Social Cognition and Cooperation / Thomas Bugnyar and Jorg J.M. Massen.

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