Cognitive ecology
Subtitle: the evolutionary ecology of information processing and decision making
By: edited by Reuven Dukas.
Contributors: Dukas, Reuven.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Cognition in animals.; Animal ecology.; Animal behavior -- Evolution.
Description: Cognitive Ecology lays the foundations for a field of study that integrates theory and data from evolutionary ecology and cognitive science to investigate how animal interactions with natural habitats shape cognitive systems, and how constraints imposed on nervous systems limit or bias animal behavior.

Using critical literature reviews and theoretical models, the contributors provide new insights and raise novel questions about the adaptive design of specific brain capacities and about optimal behavior subject to the computational capabilities of brains.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.