Learning from animals?
By: [edited by] Louise S. Roska-Hardy and Eva M. Neumann-Held.
Contributors: Röska-Hardy, Louise, 1950-; Neumann-Held, Eva M.
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hove, East Sussex; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781841697079
Subjects: Psychology, Comparative -- Research; Animal psychology -- Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Issues and themes in comparative studies : language, cognition, and culture / Louise S. Roska-Hardy; title: Language; title: Prolegomena to a science of biolinguistics / W. Tecumseh Fitch; title: Sketch of an evolutionary grammar based on comparative biolinguistics / Wolfgang Wildgen; title: Vocal and gestural communication in non-human primates and the question of the origin of language / Adrien Meguerditchian and Jacques Vauclair; title: Cognition; title: Socio-emotional factors in the development of joint attention in human and ape infants / Kim A. Bard and David A. Leavens; title: Collective intentionality and the roots of human societal life / Hannes Rakoczy; title: Socio-cognitive abilities and cooperative breeding / Judith-Maria Burkart; title: Attentiveness toward others and social learning in domestic dogs / Zsófia Virányi, Friederike Range, and Ludwig Huber; title: From similarity to uniqueness : method and theory in comparative psychology / Ingar Brinck; title: Culture; title: Experimental approaches to the study of culture in primates / Christine A. Caldwell; title: How the chimpanzee stole culture, or lessons learned from labours in cultural primatology / William C. McGrew; title: Great apes and the human resistance to equality / Dale Jamieson; title: Apes and human dignity / Matthias Kettner; title: Postscript: Human uniqueness in a comparative perspective / Louise S. Roska-Hardy.