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Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior
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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, communic…
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shettleworth, S. J.
- Corresponding author
- Shettleworth, Sara J
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressNew York, NY
- Published
- 2009-12-30
- OpenAlex
- W4388250822
- Cited by
- 1,453
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 37 · 2025: 120 · 2024: 78 · 2023: 95 · 2022: 104 · 2021: 102 · 2020: 81 · 2019: 74 · 2018: 84 · 2017: 89 · 2016: 75 · 2015: 54 · 2014: 53 · 2013: 58 · 2012: 62
- FWCI
- 69.51
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Keywords
- animal cognition, cognitive evolution, perception, learning, memory, episodic memory, metacognition, theory of mind, numerical cognition, physical cognition, social cognition, social learning, animal communication, tool use, instrumental behavior, foraging, brain evolution, human uniqueness, imitation, evolution of behavior
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