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Animal cognition in nature the convergence of psychology and biology in laboratory and field

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 unexp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Balda, Russell P.
Other Authors: Pepperberg, Irene M., Kamil, Alan C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Diego [Calif.] Academic Press ©1998, 1998
Subjects:
Animals
Cognition In Animals / Fast / (ocolc)fst00866500
Cognition In Animals
Animal Ecology
Animal Population Groups / Psychology
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General / Bisacsh
Animal Communication
Behavior, Animal
Cognition Chez Les Animaux
Ecology
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Collection: Elsevier ScienceDirect eBooks - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • the perplexing pinyon jay / Russell P. Balda and Alan C. Kamil
  • Adaptive specializations of spatial cognition in food-storing birds? Approaches to testing a comparative hypothesis / Sara J. Shettleworth and Robert R. Hampton
  • Memory and the hippocampus in food-storing birds / N.C. Clayton and D.W. Lee
  • Spatial cognition: lesson from central-place foraging insects / Fred C. Dyer
  • The navigation system in birds and its development / Wolfgang Wiltschko and Roswitha Wiltschko
  • Neuroethology of avian navigation / Verner P. Bingman, Lauren V. Riters, Rosemary Strasser and Anna Gagliardo
  • Cognitive implications of an information-sharing model of animal communication / W. John Smith
  • Cognitive processes in avian vocal acquisition / Luis F. Baptista, Douglas A. Nelson and Sandra L.L. Gaunt
  • Hierarchical learning, development and rep
  • Includes bibliographical references and index

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