Animal Cognition in Nature

The Convergence of Psychology and Biology in Laboratory and Field

Russell P. Balda, Irene M. Pepperberg, A. C. Kamil

• Publisher: Academic Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080527239
• Year: 1998

In this book, the editors bring together results from studies on all kinds of animals to show how thinking on many behaviors as truly cognitive processes can help us to understand the biology involved. Taking ideas and observations from the while range of research into animal behavior leads to unexpected and stimulating ideas. A space is created where the work of field ecologists, evolutionary ecologists and experimental psychologists can interact and contribute to a greater understanding of complex animal behavior, and to the development of a new and coherent field of study.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Animal Cognition in Nature
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• About the editors
• Chapter 1. On the Proper Definition of Cognitive Ethology
• Chapter 2. The Ecology and Evolution of Spatial Memory in Corvids of the Southwestern USA : The Perplexing Pinyon Jay
• Chapter 3. Adaptive Specializations of Spatial Cognition in Food-storing Birds? Approaches to Testing a Comparative Hypothesis
• Chapter 4. Memory and the Hippocampus in Food-storing Birds
• Chapter 5. Spatial Cognition: Lesson from Central-place Foraging Insects
• Chapter 6. The Navigation System in Birds and its Development
• Chapter 7. Neuroethology of Avian Navigation
• Chapter 8. Cognitive Implications of an Information-sharing Model of Animal Communication
• Chapter 9. Cognitive Processes in Avian Vocal Acquisition
• Chapter 10. Hierarchical Learning, Development and Representation of Song
• Chapter 11. Song Bird Song Repertoires: An Ethological Approach to Studying Cognition
• Chapter 12. Causes of Avian Song: Using Neurobiology to Integrate Proximate and Ultimate Levels of Analysis
• Chapter 13. The African Grey Parrot: How Cognitive Processing Might Affect Allospecific Vocal Learning
• Chapter 14. Cognitive Abilitie s of Araneophagic Jumping Spiders
• Chapter 15. Varying Views of Animal and Human Cognition
• Index