Neurobiology Of Comparative Cognition

Author : Raymond P. Kesner
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317785657
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neurobiology of Comparative Cognition written by Raymond P. Kesner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a unique and elaborate exposition of the neural organization of language, memory, and spatial perception in a wide variety of species including humans, bees, fish, rodents, and monkeys. The editors have united the comparative approach with its emphasis on evolutionary determinants of behavior, the neurobiological approach with its emphasis on the neural determinants of behavior, and the cognitive approach with its emphasis on understanding higher-order mental functions. The combination of these three approaches provides an unusual look at the neurobiology of comparative cognition, and should stimulate increased investigations in this field and related disciplines.

Author : Mary C. Olmstead
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107011167
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Cognition written by Mary C. Olmstead and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces cognitive processes and animal behaviour across species, integrating classic studies and contemporary research in psychology, biology and neuroscience.

Author : R. J. Schusterman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135060002
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dolphin Cognition and Behavior written by R. J. Schusterman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1986, Dolphin Cognition and Behavior is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.

Author : Edward A. Wasserman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195167651
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Cognition written by Edward A. Wasserman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on the scientific study of animal intelligence. It celebrates comparative cognition's first quarter century, with a collection of chapters, covering the realm of the scientific study of animal intelligence.

Author : Thomas R. Zentall
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195392663
Total Pages : 941 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition written by Thomas R. Zentall and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Comparative cognition. 2006.

Author : Louise Barrett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838347
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Brain written by Louise Barrett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to understanding animal and human cognition When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories, ecological niches, and physical attributes. How do these differences influence animal thinking and behavior? Removing our human-centered spectacles, Louise Barrett investigates the mind and brain and offers an alternative approach for understanding animal and human cognition. Drawing on examples from animal behavior, comparative psychology, robotics, artificial life, developmental psychology, and cognitive science, Barrett provides remarkable new insights into how animals and humans depend on their bodies and environment—not just their brains—to behave intelligently. Barrett begins with an overview of human cognitive adaptations and how these color our views of other species, brains, and minds. Considering when it is worth having a big brain—or indeed having a brain at all—she investigates exactly what brains are good at. Showing that the brain's evolutionary function guides action in the world, she looks at how physical structure contributes to cognitive processes, and she demonstrates how these processes employ materials and resources in specific environments. Arguing that thinking and behavior constitute a property of the whole organism, not just the brain, Beyond the Brain illustrates how the body, brain, and cognition are tied to the wider world.

Author : Anne Petersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351530852
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brain Maturation and Cognitive Development written by Anne Petersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume adopts a unique, multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development of the human brain and early behavior. It includes chapters by researchers from several disciplines whose work addresses specific aspects of brain-behavioral interactions in development. The chapters provide strong evidence that the development of both brain and behavior is a response to biological and environmental variations.Language is also discussed, and provides a useful example of biosocial development because linguistic and brain functions and development can be examined under controlled conditions of both genetic and environmental deprivation. Research in this area has produced particularly exciting results pointing to the universality of language capacity among humans and illuminating the processes by which language competence develops.Brain Maturation and Cognitive Development provides new views in the understanding of human nature and present new, biosocially oriented research directions that are unique in their focus.

Author : H. L. Roitblat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780716717782
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Comparative Cognition written by H. L. Roitblat and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sara J. Shettleworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195343106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition written by Sara J. Shettleworth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growing accessibility of original journal articles and papers, a staggering number of professors teaching junior/senior level courses are turning away from the use of textbooks in favor of primary research papers. The Fundamentals of Cognition series covers the main topics in thefield of Cognitive Psychology, and will address the need professors have for a brief, yet detailed, overview of specific topics in cognitive psychology. The books in this series will serve as a unifying discussion of the topic and provide continuity and cohesion to the discussion of primaryresearch papers. These primers will be written by prominent cognitive scientists with the ability to write accessibly about complex subjects. They will capture the current state of this fast moving field and reflect the authors' views.Comparative Cognition has countless connections to the rest of psychology and encompasses the comparative and evolutionary basis of development and social psychological processes as well as every aspect of cognition. Comparative research also provides the basis for the animal models used inbehavioral neuroscience and genetics. This text on the Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition will convey the richness and excitement of this diverse field while addressing the fundamental questions of what makes us uniquely human and what we share with other creatures. Professors' experience withShettleworth's graduate text and her clear, direct, and interesting writing style makes them very excited about the possibility of Shettleworth writing an undergraduate text in this field.

Author : Carolyn A. Ristau
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780805802528
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Ethology written by Carolyn A. Ristau and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.