Animal Cognition
Animal Cognition
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Current Topics in Animal Learning: Brain, Emotion, and Cognition
by Lawrence Dachowski, Charles F. Flaherty. 446 pgs.
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Current Issues and Emerging Theories in Animal Cognition, in Annual Review of Psychology
by S.T. Boysen, G.T. Himes. 22 pgs.
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Do animals have ideas? Do they experience pain like humans? Do they think about objects that they cannot see? About situations that have occurred in the past? Do they consciously make plans for the future or do they simply react unthinkingly to objects as they appear and situations as they arise? All of these questions have bearing on whether or not animals have consciousness. The advent of computers that "think" has lead us to consider "intelligence" in a way we never thought possible a decade ago. But when and how does information processing in the brain become automatic?In Minds of Their Own, Lesley J. Rogers examines the issue of animal thought both sympathetically and critically by looking at the different behavior characteristics of a variety of animals, the evolution of the brain and when consciousness might have evolved. To most people, to be conscious means to be aware of oneself as well as to be aware of others. But does this hold true for animals? The answer may have implications which transcend mere scientific inquiry: if animals are cognizant creatures, what, if any, moral responsibility do humans have to assure their rights? This timely book examines this issue and others by emphasizing comparisons between humans and animals: how we evolved; how we remember; how we learn.
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The Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of Self-Reflective Consciousness
by Herbert S. Terrace, Janet Metcalfe. 379 pgs.
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Animal Cognition: Proceedings of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Conference, June 2-4, 1982
by H. L. Roitblat, T. G. Bever, H. S. Terrace. 684 pgs.
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Thinking across Cultures (Part IV "Animal Cognition")
by Donald M. Topping, Doris C. Crowell, Victor N. Kobayashi. 506 pgs.
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Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child: A Classic 1935 Comparative Study of Ape Emotions and Intellegence
by Frans B. M. de Waal, N. N. Ladygina-Kohts, Boris Vekker. 452 pgs.
N.N. Ladygina-Kohts earned her degree in comparative psychology at Moscow University in 1917, then became the first curator of the Darwin Museum in Moscow. Her pioneering work with the chimpanzee, Joni, was reported throughout the continent during her lifetime, earning her a series of honors in the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child, her diary comparing Joni's development with that of her son, Rudy, had never been translated completely. This volumepresents the first, complete English translation with 120 photographs, an introduction by Allen and Beatrix Gardner of the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Nevada and an Afterword by Lisa A. Parr, Signe Preuschoft, and Frans B. M. de Waal of the Living Links Center.