How do animals perceive the world, learn, remember, search for food
or mates, communicate, and find their way around? Do any nonhuman
animals count, imitate one another, use a language, or have a
culture? What are the uses of cognition in nature and how might it
have evolved? What is the current status of Darwin's claim that
other species share the same "mental powers" as humans, but to
different degrees?
In this completely revised second edition of Cognition, Evolution,
and Behavior, Sara Shettleworth addresses these questions, among
others, by integrating findings from psychology, behavioral
ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of
theory and research on animal cognition, in the broadest
sense--from species-specific adaptations of vision in fish and
associative learning in rats to discussions of theory of mind in
chimpanzees, dogs, and ravens. She reviews the latest research on
topics such as episodic memory, metacognition, and cooperation and
other-regarding behavior in animals, as well as recent theories
about what makes human cognition unique.
In every part of this new edition, Shettleworth incorporates
findings and theoretical approaches that have emerged since the
first edition was published in 1998. The chapters are now organized
into three sections: Fundamental Mechanisms (perception, learning,
categorization, memory), Physical Cognition (space, time, number,
physical causation), and Social Cognition (social knowledge, social
learning, communication). Shettleworth has also added new chapters
on evolution and the brain and on numerical cognition, and a new
chapter on physical causation that integrates theories of
instrumental behavior with discussions of foraging, planning, and
tool using.
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