Title: Animal intelligence : from individual to social cognition /
Authors: Reznikova, Zh. I.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Animal intelligence.
Abstract: The author offers a multi-faceted panorama of animal intelligence and how it works in nature. Written in an accessible and charming style, and with undergraduate and graduate students in mind, this book should be read by anyone with an interest in the world of animal behaviour.
Contents: Foreword : an ant's eye view of animal intelligence / by W.C. McGrew -- Part I. Development of ideas and methods in studying animal intelligence -- Evolution of views on animal intelligence -- Dramatic adventures of behaviourism -- Intelligence under a scalpel : starts and false starts of neuroscience -- Integrative approaches and coherent movement in studying animal intelligence -- Ethological approaches for studying animal learning -- Part II. Animals are welcome to the class : learning classes -- Habituation and associative learning -- Learning classes beyond 'simple' associative learning -- Part III. Past and future in animal life : remembering, updating and anticipation -- What is memory for an intelligent animal? -- Chicks do not suffer from schizophrenia : a brief outline of brain mechanisms for processing and storing memory -- Behavioural mechanisms of experience of time -- Part IV. Being in the right place at the right time : representation of space and objects in the animal mind -- Navigation strategies in animals -- To what degree is mapping cognitive in animals? -- 'Object permanence' in animals -- Part V. Experimental approaches to studying essential activities of animal intelligence -- Conditional discrimination as a basic technique for studying rule learning -- Categorisation, abstraction, and concept formation : are animals logical? -- Conceptual behaviour based on relations -- Part VI. Advanced intelligence in animals : rule extraction, tool using and number related skills -- Insightful behaviour -- Tool using as a tool for experimental studies of animal intelligence -- Numerical competence in animals.