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  The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition (Bradford Books (Paperback)) (Paperback) Edited by Marc Bekoff, Edited by Colin Allen, Edited by Gordon M. Burghardt

  

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  Short Description for The Cognitive AnimalAn interdisciplinary anthology of essays on animal cognition.
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  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Published: 01 August 2002
  • Format: Paperback 504 pages
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  • Categories: Experimental Psychology | Cognition & Cognitive Psychology | Zoology & Animal Sciences | Animal Behaviour
  • ISBN 13: 9780262523226 ISBN 10: 0262523221
  • Sales rank: 1,081,150

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• The fifty-seven original essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of animal cognition. The contributors include cognitive ethologists, behavioral ecologists, experimental and developmental psychologists, behaviorists, philosophers, neuroscientists, computer scientists and modelers, field biologists, and others. The diversity of approaches is both philosophical and methodological, with contributors demonstrating various degrees of acceptance or disdain for such terms as "consciousness" and varying degrees of concern for laboratory experimentation versus naturalistic research. In addition to primates, particularly the nonhuman great apes, the animals discussed include antelopes, bees, dogs, dolphins, earthworms, fish, hyenas, parrots, prairie dogs, rats, ravens, sea lions, snakes, spiders, and squirrels.The topics include (but are not limited to) definitions of cognition, the role of anecdotes in the study of animal cognition, anthropomorphism, attention, perception, learning, memory, thinking, consciousness, intentionality, communication, planning, play, aggression, dominance, predation, recognition, assessment of self and others, social knowledge, empathy, conflict resolution, reproduction, parent-young interactions and caregiving, ecology, evolution, kin selection, and neuroethology.