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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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Contributors

Preface

1: Memory Processes, ACTH, and Extinction Phenomena

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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2: Context and Retrieval in Extinction and in Other Examples of Interference in Simple Associative Learning

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Event Revaluation Procedures and Associative Structures in Pavlovian Conditioning

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4: Expression of Learning

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5: Memory Strategies in Pigeons

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6: The Acquisition of Concrete and Abstract Categories in Pigeons University of Wales, College of Cardiff

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7: Comparative Cognition: Processing of Serial Order and Serial Pattern

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8: Parallels Between the Behavioral Effects of Dimethoxy-ß-Carboline (DMCM) and Conditional Fear Stimuli

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9: Incentive Contrast and Selected Animal Models of Anxiety

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10: Consummatory Incentive Contrast: Experimental Design Relationships and Deprivation Effects

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11: Multiple Memory Systems of the Mammalian Brain Involved in Classical Conditioning

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12: Contributions of the Amygdala and Anatomically- Related Structures to the Acquisition and Expression of Aversively Conditioned Responses

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13: Animal Models of Alzheimer's Disease: Role of Hippocampal Cholinergic Systems in Working Memory

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14: Brain, Emotion, and Cognition: An Overview

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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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Minds of Their Own: Thinking and Awareness in Animals
by Lesley J. Rogers. 214 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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List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Chapter One Not Simply Machines

Chapter Two Awareness of Self and Others

Chapter Three Mental Images, Memory and Intelligence

Chapter Four Evolving a Brain for Consciousness

Chapter Five Evolution of the Human Brain and Mind

Chapter Six Future Research on Animal Minds

Chapter Seven Thinking, Feeling and Animal Rights

Further Reading

Index
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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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1: Episodic Memory and Autonoesis

2: Self-Reflective Consciousness and the Projectable Self

3: Metacognition and the Evolution of Language

4: Emerging Levels of Consciousness in Early Human Development

5: A Continuum of Self-Consciousness That Emerges in Phylogeny and Ontogeny

6: Humans as Applied Motivation Scientists

7: Two Normative Roles for Self-Consciousness

8: Progress in the Study of Chimpanzee Recall and Episodic Memory

9: Do Nonhuman Primates Have Episodic Memory?

10: Studies of Uncertainty Monitoring and Metacognition in Animals and Humans

11: Can Rhesus Monkeys Discriminate between Remembering and Forgetting?

12: Metaconfidence Judgments in Rhesus Macaques

13: The Self and Other

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Animal Cognition: A Tribute to Donald A. Riley
by Donald A. Riley, Thomas R. Zentall. 370 pgs.

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Preface

I Introduction

1: Animal Cognition: An Approach to the Study of Animal Behavior

Ii Stimulus Representation

2: The Stimulus Revisited: My, How You'Ve Grown!

3: When is a Stimulus a Pattern?

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4: Discriminative Stimulus Control: What You See is Not Necessarily What You Get

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5: Generalization Gradients Excitation and Inhibition: Long-Term Memory for Dimensional Control and Curious Inversions During Repeated Tests with Reinforcement

Acknowledgments

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6: Retrieval Processes and Conditioning

Iii Memory Processes

7: When Memory Fails to Fail

8: Foraging in Laboratory Trees: Spatial Memory in Squirrel Monkeys

Acknowledgments

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9: Sequential and Simultaneous Choice Processes in the Radial-Arm Maze

9: Sequential and Simultaneous Choice Processes in the Radial-Arm Maze

Acknowledgments

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10: Representations and Processes in Working Memory

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11: Coding Processes in Pigeons

Acknowledgments

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12: Common Coding and Stimulus Class Formation in Pigeons

Iv Perceptual Processes

13: Attention: Neurocognitive Analyses

14: Gestalt Contributions to Visual Texture Discriminations by Pigeons

14: Gestalt Contributions to Visual Texture Discriminations by Pigeons

15: Multidimensional Stimulus Control in Pigeons: Selective Attention and Other Issues

16: From Elementary Associations to Animal Cognition: Connectionist Models of Discrimination Learning

Acknowledgments

17: A Comparative, Hierarchical Theory for Object Recognition and Action

18: Absolutes and Relations in Acoustic Perception by Songbirds

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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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Series Foreword

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Preface

I: Cognition in Animals and Humans

1: Animal Cognition

2: Contributions of Animal Memory to the Interpretation of Animal Learning

Acknowledgments

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3: Animal Intelligence: Understanding the Minds of Animals Through Their Behavioral Ambassadors""

4: The Road from Behaviorism to Rationalism

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II: Working Memory

5: Representations in Pigeon Working Memory

Acknowledgments

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6: Rehearsal in Pigeon Short-Term Memory

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7: Some Problems for a Theory of Working Memory

Iv. Summary

8: How Expectancies Guide Behavior

V. Concluding Remarks

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9: Cognitive Processes in Cebus Monkeys

Vi. Summary and Conclusions

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III: Sequence Memory

10: Working Memory and Serial Patterns

11: Cognitive Processing of Pitch and Rhythm Structures by Birds

12: Order Competencies in Animals: Models for the Delayed Sequence Discrimination Task

Acknowledgments

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13: Self Reports by Rats of the Temporal Patterning of Their Behavior: A Dissociation Between Tacit Knowledge and Knowledge

V. Summary

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IV: Concept Formation and Processing of Complex Stimuli

14: Objects, Categories, and Discriminative Stimuli

Acknowledgments

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15: In What Sense Do Pigeons Learn Concepts?

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16: Form Recognition in Pigeons

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17: Acquisition of Functional Symbol Usage in Apes and Children

18: Absence as Information: Some Implications for Learning, Performance, and Representational Processes

V. Concluding Comments

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19: Do Pigeons Decompose Stimulus Compounds?

Vii. Summary

V: Judgments of Similarity and Difference

20: Pigeon and Monkey Serial Probe Recognition: Acquisition, Strategies, and Serial Position Effects

V. Concluding Remarks

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21: Serial Position Effects and Rehearsal in Primate Visual Memory

Acknowledgments

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22: Cognitive Factors in Conditional Learning by Pigeons

Vii. Summary

Viii. Conclusion

VI: Space, Time, and Number

23: Testing the Geometric Power of an Animal's Spatial Representation

Acknowledgments

24: Some Issues in Animal Spatial Memory

V. Conclusion

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Acknowledgments

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26: Sources of Variance in an Information Processing Theory of Timing

Vii. Summary

Viii. Appendix

Viii. Appendix

Viii. Appendix

VII: Evolution and Development

27: The Ecology and Brain of Two- Handed Bipedalism: An Analytic, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Assessment

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28: The Cache-Recovery System as an Example of Memory Capabilities in Clark is Nutcracker

Acknowledgments

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29: Adaptation and Cognition: Knowing What Comes Naturally

Iv. Conclusions

30: Ontogenetic Differences in the Processing of Multi-Element Stimuli

V. Summary and Comment

31: The Evolution of Cognition in Primates: A Comparative Perspective

Acknowledgments

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VIII: Neurophysiological Approaches

32: Common Components of Information Processing Underlying Memory Disorders in Humans and Animals

V. Conclusion

References

33: The Hippocampus as an Interface Between Cognition and Emotion

34: Brain Systems and Cognitive Learning Processes

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Learning and Instinct in Animals
by W. H. Thorpe. 493 pgs.

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To the Reader

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Plates

Part I: Some General Concepts

Chapter I: Directiveness and Purposiveness

Summary

Chapter II: The Nature of Drive and Its Place in the Theory of Instinct

Summary

Part II: Learning

Chapter III: The Concepts of Learning: (I) Habituation

Summary

Chapter IV: Associative Learning: Conditioning Trial-And-Error

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Chapter V: Latent Learning and Insight Learning and Their Relation to Trial-And-Error

Summary

Chapter VI: The Evidence for Insight Learning and Insight

Summary

Chapter VII: Insight and Perception

Summary

Chapter VIII: The Mechanisms of Learning

Summary

Part III: The Learning Abilities of the Main Animal Groups

Introduction

Chapter IX: Protozoa and Lower Metazoa

Chapter X: Worms and Molluscs

Chapter XI: Arthropods

Chapter XII: Fish

Chapter XIII: Amphibians and Reptiles

Chapter XIV: Birds

Chapter XV: Birds (continued)

Chapter XVI: Mammals

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Index and Scientific Names Of Animals

Author Index

General Index
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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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An Introduction To Hawaiian Thought, Mo'Olelo

Editors' Note

Introduction

1: Thinking Across Cultures

1: Cultural Psychology-- Understanding The Riddle of Development

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2 An Information Processing Framework for the Study Of Culture and Thought

References

3: Fiction as a Tool For Cross-Cultural Thinking And Teaching: A Case Study Of The Work of Ursula K. Leguin

4: The Present Past: An Examination Of Archaeological And Native American Thinking

5: A Study of Samoan Children On Eleven Cognitive Tasks

6: On the Learning And Thinking Styles Of Hawaiian Children

7 Cultural Patterns of Cognition Reflected in The Questioning Styles Of Anglo and Navajo Teachers

Acknowledgment

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Ii Language and Cognition

Ii Language and Cognition

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9 The Myth of Autonomous Text

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10 Semantic-Pragmatic Disability: A Disorder of Thought?

Acknowledgment

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11: The Structuring Of Inferential Processes In Oral Documentation

12 Language and Attitude: A Study in Arabic, English, And Japanese On The Role of Language In Cross-Cultural Thinking

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Acknowledgment

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13: Reasoning and Representation Across Cultures: A Comparison of Chinese and American Thinking

Iii Thinking: Philosophical Considerations

Iii Thinking: Philosophical Considerations

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Acknowledgment

15: Thinking Vs. Thought: Strategies For Conceptual Creativity

16 Structural Relations In Thought Sequences

Acknowledgment

Acknowledgment

Acknowledgement

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18 Cultural Relativism And The Virtue of Tolerance

Iv Animal Cognition

Iv Animal Cognition

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20 Education About Animal Minds

21 Animal Thinking: The Development and Status Of Research and Theory On Animal Cognition

Acknowledgments

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22: Thinking Across Cultures-- Humans and Bees

V Empirical Studies Of Thinking

V Empirical Studies Of Thinking

Acknowledgments

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24: Predecision Processes In Chess: Masters, Experts, And Novices

Acknowledgments

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25: How Different Is Problem Solving in The Social Domain?

26 The Influence Of Occupational Experience In Spatial Development Of Children in a Rural Indian Setting

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Vi Infant Cognition

27 Thoughts on Thinking In The Thoughtless Infant

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28: The Transfer Dilemma: From Cross-Modal Perception To Metaphor

29 What Develops In Infant Cognitive Development?

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30 Electrophysiological Investigation of Cognition In Infants

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Vii The Teaching of Thinking

3 Making the Horse Drink: An "Engineering" Ideology Underlying U.S. Education

32 An Assessment of The Thinking Skills Movement: Miles to Go Before We Sleep: A Symposium

33: Teaching Thinking Strategies: An Attempt To Promote Generalization

34: Making Good Thinking Stick: The Role of Metacognition, Extended Practice, and Teacher Modeling in the Teaching Of Thinking

35: Thinking About Time: Helping Children Gain A Sense of History

36: Guided Design: Critical Thinking And Proficiency in the University Foreign Language Classroom

37 Promoting Thinking in Physics And Algebra: Incorporating Cognitive Research Findings Into Software Design

Acknowledgments

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38 Teaching Thinking In Subject-Specific Contexts To Disadvantaged South African Communities

Acknowledgments

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39 Computers, Cognition, And Language: A Cross-Cultural Liaison

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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.

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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.

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Series in Affective Science Classics

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Foreword

Introduction to the English Edition

Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Descriptive Behavior of Infant Chimpanzee

Chapter 1: Description of the Chimpanzee

Chapter 2: Chimpanzee's Emotions: Their Expressions and Their Stimuli

Chapter 3: Chimpanzee's Instincts

Chapter 4: Chimpanzee's Play

Chapter 5: Chimpanzee's Circumspect Behavior (deception and Slyness)

Chapter 6: Using Tools

Chapter 7: Chimpanzee's Imitations

Chapter 8: Chimpanzee's Memory

Chapter 9: Conditional Language of Gestures and Sounds

Chapter 10: Natural Sounds of the Chimpanzee

Part II: Behavior of Human Child Comparative Psychological Study

Chapter 11: Human and Chimpanzee: Comparison of Appearances

Chapter 12: Human Emotions and Emotions of the Chimpanzee

Chapter 13: Comparison of Human Instincts with Instincts of Chimpanzee

Chapter 14: Human Play and Play of the Chimpanzee

Chapter 15: Memory and Habits of the Human Child (conditioned Re.Ex Acts)

Part III: Synthesis

Chapter 16: Similarities in Behavior of Human and Chimpanzee

Chapter 17: Di.Erences in the Behavior of Human and Chimpanzee

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

References
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Cognition, Language, and Consciousness: Integrative Levels (Includes discussion of animal cognition in multiple chapters)
by Gary Greenberg, Ethel Tobach. 301 pgs.

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Preface

I: Prologue

1: "Each Animal in Its Own Psychological Setting . . ."

2: Nomans' Languages

II: Colloquium

3: Reflections on Thinking In Animals

Acknowledgment

References

4: Interspecies Communication: A Tool for Assessing Conceptual Abilities in The African Grey Parrot

References

Acknowledgment

5: Chimpanzee Signing And Emergent Levels

6: Human Specificity In Language: Sociogenetic Processes in Verbal Communication

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7: Aphasia as A Communicative Disorder: Application of The Levels Concept

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8: Language with Or Without Consciousness

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9: Materialism and Reductionism In the Study of Animal Consciousness

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10: Folk-Models, Reductionism, And Emergent Patterns In Human Behavioral Evolution

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11: Human Evolution and The Comparative Psychology Of Levels

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Acknowledgments

12: Biological Implications of A Global-Workspace Theory Of Consciousness: Evidence, Theory, and Some Phylogenetic Speculations

Acknowledgments

References

III: Epilogue

13: Integrative Levels in The Comparative Psychology Of Cognition, Language, And Consciousness

References

Acknowledgments

14: Some Remarks on Integrative Levels

Acknowledgments

References

15: Issues for Continuing Discussion of Integrative Levels

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Cognitive Aspects of Stimulus Control (Includes discussion of animal cognition in multiple chapters)
by J. Gregor Fetterman, W. K. Honig. 446 pgs.

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Preface

6 Pigeon's Concept of Experienced And Nonexperienced Real-World Locations: Discrimination and Generalization Across Seasonal Variation

18 Counting as the Chimpanzee Views It

19 Levels of Organized Behavior in Rats

Author Index

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Approaches to Cognition: Contrasts and Controversies (Chap. 6 "Understanding Animal Cognition")
by Terry J. Knapp, Lynn C. Robertson. 334 pgs.

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Preface

1: Cognitive Psychology And Philosophy of Mind

2: The Emergence of Cognitive Psychology in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century

3: The Information Processing Approach to Cognition

4: Why I Am Not A Cognitive Psychologist

5: Bringing Cognition and Creativity into the Behavioral Laboratory

6: Understanding Animal Cognition

7: J. J. Gibson's Ecological Theory of Information Pickup: Cognition from the Ground Up

8: From Gestalt to Neo-Gestalt

9: Cognitive Intervention in Perceptual Processing

10: Toward a Computational Neuropsychology of High- Level Vision

11: Cognitive Neuropsychology

12: Putting Cognitive Psychology to Work: Examples from Computer System Design

13: A Coordination of Differences: Behaviorism, Mentalism, and the Foundations of Psychology

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Cognitive Ethology: The Minds of Other Animals: Essays in Honor of Donald R. Griffin
by Carolyn A. Ristau. 332 pgs.

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Preface

Reminiscences

PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

1: Progress Toward a Cognitive Ethology

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2: From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Ethology

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3: How is Cognitive Ethology Possible?

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PART II: EVIDENCE FROM THE LABORATORY AND FIELD

4: Cognitive Ethology and Critical Anthropomorphism: A Snake with Two Heads and Hognose Snakes that Play Dead

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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5: Aspects of the Cognitive Ethology of an Injury-Feigning Bird, the Piping Plover

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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6: Truth and Deceptiction in Animal Communication

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7: A Communicative Approach to Animal Cognition: A Study of Conceptual Abilities of an African Grey Parrot

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8: Do Animals Have the Option of Withholding Signals When Communication is Inappropriate? The Audience Effect

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9: Animal Communication and the Study of Cognition

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10: Conscious Chimpanzees? A Review of Recent Literature

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11: Human Psychology and the Minds of Other Animals

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

12: Integrating Cgnitive Ethology with Cognitive Psychology

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13: Cognitive Ethology: An Overview

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Species Index
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Dolphin Cognition and Behavior: A Comparative Approach
by Ronald J. Schusterman, Jeanette A. Thomas, Forrest G. Wood. 393 pgs.

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COMPARATIVE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE

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Foreword

References

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Brain and Senses of Dolphins

1: Evolutionary Morphology of the Dolphin Brain

Summary

References

2: Physiological Observations on Dolphin Brains

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3: Middle- and Long-Latency Auditory Event-Related Potentials in Dolphins

Summary

References

4: Vision, Audition, and Chemoreception in Dolphins and Other Marine Mammals

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5: Dolphin Audition and Echolocation Capacities

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II Cognition and Intelligence of Dolphins

6: The Perceptual Worlds of Dolphins

Summary and Conclusions

References

7: How Can You Tell if an Animal is Intelligent?

Summary and Conclusions

References

8: Describing Intelligence

Concluding Comments

References

9: Suggestions for Research on Ethological and Comparative Cognition

Summary

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10: Cognition and Language Competencies of Bottlenosed Dolphins

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11: Reinforcement Training as Interspecies Communication

Conclusion

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12: Dolphin Behavior and Cognition: Evolutionary and Ecological Aspects

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III Communication in Dolphins

13: Dolphin Vocal Mimicry and Vocal Object Labeling

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14: Acquisition of Anomalous Communicatory Systems: Implications for Studies on Interspecies Communication

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15: Awareness, Intentionality, and Acquired Communicative Behaviors: Dimensions of Intelligence

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16: Signaling Behavior: Contributions of Different Repertoires

Conclusions

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IV Social Behavior and Foraging Strategies of Dolphins

17: Delphinid Social Organization and Social Behavior

Conclusion

References

18: Delphinid Foraging Strategies

Concluding Remarks

References

19: Social Complexity and Cooperative Behavior in Delphinids

References

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