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Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition Sara J. Shettleworth (University of Toronto)

Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition By Sara J. Shettleworth (University of Toronto)

Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition by Sara J. Shettleworth (University of Toronto)

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A foremost scholar in comparative cognition-a discipline closely connected to behavioral biology, evolution, and cognitive neuroscience-author Sara J. Shettleworth delivers a focused treatment of the essentials in writing that is both lucid and captivating.

Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition Summary

Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition by Sara J. Shettleworth (University of Toronto)

A foremost scholar in comparative cognition-a discipline closely connected to behavioral biology, evolution, and cognitive neuroscience-author Sara J. Shettleworth delivers a focused treatment of the essentials in writing that is both lucid and captivating. Brief, yet brimming with detail, Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition conveys the richness and complexity of this diverse field while addressing two fundamental questions: What makes us uniquely human? and What do our minds share with other creatures?

About Sara J. Shettleworth (University of Toronto)

Sara J. Shettleworth, Professor Emerita in the Departments of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto, is the recipient of the Comparative Cognition Society's 2008 Research Award and a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and Royal Society of Canada. Her research on learning and memory in a variety of species of birds and mammals has been published in more than 100 articles and book chapters. Her widely-read book Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior (OUP, 2010) is now in its second edition.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction ; Preface ; Chapter 1. What Is Comparative Cognition About? ; From Darwin to Behaviorism: A Little History ; Research in the Twenty-First Century: Tool-Using Crows ; How This Book Is Organized ; Chapter 2. Basic Processes ; Perception and Attention ; Memory ; Associative Learning ; Discrimination, Classification, and Concepts ; Chapter 3. Physical Cognition ; Spatial Cognition: How Do Animals Find Their Way Around? ; Two Timing Systems ; Numerical Cognition ; Putting It Together: Foraging and Planning ; Using Tools ; Chapter 4. Social Cognition ; Social Behavior: The Basics ; Social Learning ; Communication ; Chapter 5. Comparative Cognition and Human Uniqueness ; Different in Degree or Kind? ; Clues from Modularity and Development ; References ; Index

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NPB9780195343106
9780195343106
0195343107
Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition by Sara J. Shettleworth (University of Toronto)
Sara J. Shettleworth (University of Toronto)
Fundamentals in Cognition
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Oxford University Press Inc
20120510
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