Cognitive ecology II
By: edited by Reuven Dukas and John M. Ratcliffe.
Contributors: Dukas, Reuven.; Ratcliffe, John M.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226169354; 9780226169361
Subjects: Cognition in animals; Animal ecology; Animal behavior -- Evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Learning: ultimate and proximate mechanisms; title: Learning: mechanisms, ecology, and evolution / Reuven Dukas; title: Introduction; title: What is learning?; title: Why learn?; title: Who learns?; title: What do animals learn?; title: Is learning important?; title: Prospects; title: The how and why of structural plasticity in the adult honeybee brain / Susan E. Fahrbach and Scott Dobrin; title: Introduction; title: The honeybee as a model for the study of neural plasticity; title: Mushroom bodies: neuroanatomy; title: How does foraging experience change the structure of the honeybee mushroom bodies?; title: What is the function of the honeybee mushroom bodies?; title: Why are the mushroom bodies larger in experienced foragers?; title: Studies of experience-dependent plasticity in the mushroom bodies of other insects; title: Specific future directions; title: Avian cognition: memory, song, and innovation; title: More on the cognitive ecology of song communication and song learning in the song sparrow / Michael D. Beecher and John M. Burt; title: Introduction; title: Background; title: Song learning in the field; title: Communication by song in male-male interactions; title: Social eavesdropping hypothesis; title: Discussion; title: Summary; title: Consequences of brain development for sexual signaling in songbirds / William A. Searcy and Stephen Nowicki; title: Introduction; title: The song system; title: Female preferences for song attributes; title: Experimental tests of the developmental stress hypothesis; title: Effects of developmental stress on phenotypic quality; title: Conclusions and prospects; title: Development of spatial memory and the hippocampus under nutritional stress: adaptive priorities or developmental constraints in brain development? / Vladimir V. Pravosudov; title: Introduction; title: Spatial memory and the hippocampus in birds; title: Nutritional deficits during posthatching development, spatial memory, and the hippocampus in western scrub jays; title: Nutritional deficits during postnatal development and the hippocampus in mammals; title: Hippocampus and song nuclei in birds; title: Does lack of nutrition directly cause changes in the brain?; title: Stem cells; title: Conclusions; title: The cognitive-buffer hypothesis for the evolution of large brains / Daniel Sol; title: Introduction; title: Assumptions of the cognitive-buffer hypothesis; title: Predictions of the cognitive-buffer hypothesis; title: Synthesis; title: Avenues for future research; title: Summary; title: Decision making: mate choice and predator-prey interactions; title: Cognitive mate choice / Michael J. Ryan, Karin L. Akre, and Mark Kirkpatrick; title: Introduction; title: Detection and perception; title: Evaluation and decision; title: Conclusions and future directions; title: Monogamous brains and alternative tactics: neuronal v1ar, space use, and sexual infidelity among male prairie voles / Steven M. Phelps and Alexander G. Pphir; title: Introduction; title: Reproductive decisions, space use, and mating tactics; title: Neural substrates of alternative tactics; title: Microsatellite polymorphisms and phenotypic diversity; title: Monogamy and cognitive ecology reconsidered; title: Assessing risk: embryos, information, and escape hatching / Karen M. Warkentin and Michael S. Caldwell; title: Introduction; title: Cognitive strategies to assess risk using nonstereotyped cues; title: Adaptive responses of embryos in heterogeneous environments; title: Hatching decisions: information use by red-eyed treefrog embryos; title: Conclusions and future directions; title: Predator-prey interaction in an auditory world / John M. Ratcliffe; title: Of bats and moths and coevolution; title: Sensory ecology and behavioral flexibility of predatory bats; title: Neuroethology of auditory-evoked defenses in noctuoid moths; title: Bat detection and the primary and secondary defenses of moths; title: Summary and conclusions; title: Cognition and sociality; title: What do functionally referential alarm calls refer to? / Marta B. Manser; title: Introduction; title: Meerkat alarm calls; title: What do functionally referential alarm calls refer to?; title: Why are some alarm calls considered functionally referential and not others?; title: Can functionally referential calls be explained by emotional expression of the signaler?; title: Conclusions; title: Summary; title: Adaptive trade-offs in the use of social and personal information / Rachel L. Kendal, Isabelle Coolen, and Kevin N. Laland; title: Introduction; title: 'When' strategies; title: 'Who' strategies; title: Evolutionary implications; title: Summary and future directions; title: The 3e's approach to social information use in birds: ecology, ethology, and evolutionary history / Ira G. Federspiel, Nicola S. Clayton, and Nathan J. Emery; title: Introduction; title: Case studies; title: Conclusions; title: Prospects / Reuven Dukas and John M. Ratcliffe.