Cognitive biology
Subtitle: evolutionary and developmental perspectives on mind, brain, and behavior
By: edited by Luca Tommasi, Mary A. Peterson, and Lynn Nadel.
Contributors: Tommasi, Luca, 1970-; Peterson, Mary A., 1950-; Nadel, Lynn.
Series: Vienna series in theoretical biology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780262012935
Subjects: Brain -- Evolution; Cognitive science; Adaptation, Physiological; Cognition -- physiology; Evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cognitive biology : the new cognitive sciences / Luca Tommasi, Lynn Nadel, and Mary A. Peterson; title: The role of social selection in the evolution of hippocampal specialization / Lucia F. Jacobs; title: Spatial cognition, memory capacity, and the evolution of mammalian hippocampal networks / Alessandro Treves; title: Space for the brain in cognitive science / Neil Burgess, Christian F. Doeller, and Chris M. Bird; title: Animals as natural geometers / Giorgio Vallortigara; title: Is cognitive modularity necessary in an evolutionary account of development? / Nora S. Newcombe ... [et al.]; title: Color generalization by birds / Daniel Osorio; title: Evolutionary biology of limited attention / Reuven Dukas; title: Learning to see and conceive / Robert L. Goldstone ... [et al.]; title: A comparative perspective on the origin of numerical thinking / Elizabeth M. Brannon and Jessica F. Cantlon; title: Numerical and spatial intuitions : a role for posterior parietal cortex? /  Edward M. Hubbard ... [et al.]; title: Learning in core and non-core domains / Rochel Gelman; title: Neuroscience, psychology, and economic behavior : the emerging field of neuroeconomics / Paul W. Glimcher; title: Neuroethology of attention in primates / Stephen V. Shepherd and Michael L. Platt; title: The human social brain : an "evo-devo" perspective / Mark H. Johnson; title: Ontogenetic development matters / Sylvain Sirois and Annette Karmiloff-Smithù.