Animal cognition in nature the convergence of psychology and biology in laboratory and field
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- ISBN: 9780080527239 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 008052723X (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780120770304
- ISBN: 012077030X (alk. paper)
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1 online resource (ix, 465 p.) : ill., maps. - Publisher: San Diego [Calif.] : Academic Press, c1998.
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General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.03.13 Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | On the proper definition of cognitive ethology / Alan C. Kamil -- The ecology and evolution of spatial memory in corvids of the southwestern USA: 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 representation of song / Dietmar Todt and Henrike Hultsch -- Song bird song repertoires: an ethological approach to studying cognition / Donald E. Kroodsma and Bruce E. Byers -- Causes of avian song: using neurobiology to integrate proximate and ultimate levels of analysis / Timothy J. DeVoogd and Tamás Székely -- The African grey parrot: how cognitive processing might affect allospecific vocal learning / Irene Maxine Pepperberg -- Cognitive abilities of araneophagic jumping spiders / R. Stimson Wilcox and Robert R. Jackson -- Varying views of animal and human cognition / Colin G. Beer. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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