Research Catalog

Title

Animal thinking : contemporary issues in comparative cognition / edited by Randolf Menzel and Julia Fischer.

Author

Ernst Strüngmann Forum (8th : 2010 : Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Publication

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Fischer, Julia, 1966-
• Menzel, Randolf, 1940-

Description

xi, 342 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

This book critically evaluates current concepts and puts a strong focus on the psychological mechanisms that underpin animal behavior. It offers comparative analyses that reveal common principles as well as adaptations that evolved in particular species in response to specific selective pressures.

Series Statement

Strüngmann forum reports

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Strüngmann forum reports.

Subject

• Animal communication > Congresses
• Animal navigation > Congresses
• Behavior, Animal
• Cognition
• Cognition in animals > Congresses
• Decision Making
• Decision making in animals > Congresses
• Social Behavior
• Social behavior in animals > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congress

Note

• "Eighth Ernst Strüngmann Forum held Sep. 26-Oct. 1, 2010, Frankfurt am Main."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-335) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Animal thinking / Randolf Menzel -- Navigation and communication in honeybees / Randolf Menzel -- Navigating in a three-dimensional world / Kathryn J. Jeffery -- Making the case for the intelligence of avian navigation / Verner P. Bingman -- Animal navigation : a synthesis / Jan Weiner [and others] -- Goal-directed behavior and future planning in animals / Anthony Dickinson -- Mechanisms for decisions about the future / Jeffrey R. Stevens -- Status of nonhuman memory monitoring and possible roles in planning and decision making / Robert R. Hampton -- Planning, memory, and decision making / Amanda Seed [and others] -- Where is the information in animal communication? / Julia Fischer -- Communication in social insects : sophisticated problem solving by groups of tiny-brained animals / Christoph Grüter -- Language and episodic sharing / Michael C. Corballis -- Communication / Brandon C. Wheeler [and others] -- How intelligent is Machiavellian behavior? / Redouan Bshary [and others] -- Simple reactions to nearby neighbors and complex social behavior in primates / Charlotte K. Hemelrijk -- Cooperation in nonhuman primates : function and cognition / Dorothy L. Cheney -- How folk psychology ruined comparative psychology : and how scrub jays can save it / Derek C. Penn -- Social knowledge / Keith Jensen [and others].

ISBN

9780262016636 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011018644

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library