Animal cognition in nature : the convergence of psychology and biology in laboratory and field /

Other Authors: Pepperberg, Irene M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego [Calif.] : Academic Press, ©1998.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=199100
Table of Contents:
  • 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.