
By Sara J. Shettleworth
ISBN-10: 0195319842
ISBN-13: 9780195319842
In this thoroughly revised moment version of Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior, Sara Shettleworth addresses those questions, between others, by way of integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a different and wide-ranging synthesis of conception and examine on animal cognition, within the broadest sense--from species-specific diversifications of imaginative and prescient in fish and associative studying in rats to discussions of idea of brain in chimpanzees, canine, and ravens. She reports the newest learn on themes resembling episodic reminiscence, metacognition, and cooperation and other-regarding habit in animals, in addition to fresh theories approximately what makes human cognition unique.
In every thing of this re-creation, Shettleworth comprises findings and theoretical ways that experience emerged because the first variation was once released in 1998. The chapters are actually prepared into 3 sections: basic Mechanisms (perception, studying, categorization, memory), actual Cognition (space, time, quantity, actual causation), and Social Cognition (social wisdom, social studying, communication). Shettleworth has additionally further new chapters on evolution and the mind and on numerical cognition, and a brand new bankruptcy on actual causation that integrates theories of instrumental habit with discussions of foraging, making plans, and gear using.