The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition [Hardcover]

In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition contains sections on perception and illusion, attention and search, memory processes, spatial cognition, conceptualization and categorization, problem solving and behavioral flexibility, and social cognition processes including findings in primate tool usage, pattern learning, and counting. The authors have incorporated findings and theoretical approaches that reflect the current state of the field. This comprehensive volume will be a must-read for students and scientists who want to know about the state of the art of the modern science of comparative cognition.

Contents

1. Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition
Edward A. Wasserman and Thomas R. Zentall

I. Perception and Illusion

2. Grouping and Segmentation in human and nonhuman primates
Jo?l Fagot, Isabelle Barbet, and Carole Parron

3. Seeing What Is Not There: Illusion, Completion, and Spatiotemporal Boundary Formation in Comparative Perspective
Kazuo Fujita

4. The Cognitive Chicken: Visual and Spatial Cognition in a Nonmammalian Brain
Giorgio Vallortigara

5. New Perspectives on Absolute Pitch in Birds and Mammals
Ronald G. Weisman, Douglas J. K. Mewhort, Marisa Hoeschele, and Christopher B. Sturdy

II. Attention and Search

6. Reaction-time Explorations of Visual Perception, Attention, and Decision in Pigeons
Donald S. Blough
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