Animal cognition in nature : the convergence of psychology and biology in laboratory and field / edited by Russell P. Balda, Irene M. Pepperberg, Alan C. Kamil.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the proper definition of cognitive ethology / Alan C. Kamil -- The ecology and evolution of spatial memory in corvids of the southwestern USA: the perplexing pinyon jay / Russell P. Balda and Alan C. Kamil -- Adaptive specializations of spatial cognition in food-storing birds? Approaches to testing a comparative hypothesis / Sara J. Shettleworth and Robert R. Hampton -- Memory and the hippocampus in food-storing birds / N.C. Clayton and D.W. Lee -- Spatial cognition: lesson from central-place foraging insects / Fred C. Dyer -- The navigation system in birds and its development / Wolfgang Wiltschko and Roswitha Wiltschko -- Neuroethology of avian navigation / Verner P. Bingman, Lauren V. Riters, Rosemary Strasser and Anna Gagliardo -- Cognitive implications of an information-sharing model of animal communication / W. John Smith -- Cognitive processes in avian vocal acquisition / Luis F. Baptista, Douglas A. Nelson and Sandra L.L. Gaunt -- Hierarchical learning, development and representation of song / Dietmar Todt and Henrike Hultsch -- Song bird song repertoires: an ethological approach to studying cognition / Donald E. Kroodsma and Bruce E. Byers -- Causes of avian song: using neurobiology to integrate proximate and ultimate levels of analysis / Timothy J. DeVoogd and Tamás Székely -- The African grey parrot: how cognitive processing might affect allospecific vocal learning / Irene Maxine Pepperberg -- Cognitive abilities of araneophagic jumping spiders / R. Stimson Wilcox and Robert R. Jackson -- Varying views of animal and human cognition / Colin G. Beer.

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In this book, the editors bring together results from studies on all kinds of animals to show how thinking on many behaviors as truly cognitive processes can help us to understand the biology involved. Taking ideas and observations from the while range of research into animal behavior leads to unexpected and stimulating ideas. A space is created where the work of field ecologists, evolutionary ecologists and experimental psychologists can interact and contribute to a greater understanding of complex animal behavior, and to the development of a new and coherent field of study.

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