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Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction provides an
up-to-date review of the principal findings from more than a
century of research into animal intelligence. This new edition has
been expanded to take account of the many exciting developments
that have occurred over the last ten years. The book opens with a
historical survey of the methods that have been used to study
animal intelligence, and follows by summarizing the contribution
made by learning processes to intelligent behavior. Topics include
Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning, discrimination learning,
and categorization. The remainder of the book focuses on animal
cognition and covers such topics as memory, navigation, social
learning, language and communication, and knowledge representation.
Expanded areas include extinction (to which an entire chapter is
now devoted), navigation in insects, episodic memory in birds,
imitation in birds and primates, and the debate about whether
primates are aware of mental states in themselves and others.
Issues raised throughout the book are reviewed in a concluding
chapter that examines how intelligence is distributed throughout
the animal kingdom. The broad spectrum of topics covered in this
book ensures that it will be of interest to students of psychology,
biology, zoology, and neuroscience. Since very little background
knowledge is required, the book will be of equal value to anyone
simply interested in either animal intelligence, or the animal
origins of human intelligence. This textbook is accompanied by
online instructor resources which are free of charge to departments
who adopt this book as their text. They include chapter-by-chapter
lecture slides, an interactive chapter-by-chapter multiple-choice
question test bank, and multiple-choice questions in paper and pen
format.
This highly interesting collection of historical articles started
as a series of "space-fillers", the journalist's device to mitigate
the harshness of white space at the end of scientific papers.The
author has expanded these short essays and included several
additional articles and biographical reviews. He has also
incorporated some longer, more discursive essays, which should be
relevant to neurologists, physicians and those working in internal
medicine and psychiatry. The reader attracted to medical and
neurological history should find much of interest in these diverse
topics.
Neurology abounds with eponyms--Babinski's sign, Guillian-Barre' sundrome, Alzheimer's disease, etc. Neurologists and neuroscientists, however, are often hazy about the origin of these terms. This book brings together 55 of the most common eponyms related to the neurological examination, neuroanatomy, and neurological diseases. The chapters have a uniform structure: a short biography, a discussion of and a quotation from the original publication, and a discussion of the subsequent evolution and significance of the eponym. Photographs of all but one of the eponymists have been included. The material is organized into sections on anatomy and pathology, symptoms and signs, reflexes and tests, clinical syndromes, and diseases and defects. The selection of eponyms was based on the frequency of use, familiarity of clinical neurologists with the concept, and the significance within neurology of the individual who coined the eponym. This volume covers some of the classic ideas in the history of clinical neurology. It will be of interest to neurologists, neuroscientists, medical historians, and their students and trainees.
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