Animal creativity and innovation /
"Animal Creativity and Innovation explores theories and research on animal innovation and creativity, comparing and contrasting it with theory and research on human creativity and innovation. In doing so, it encompasses findings from psychology, biology, neuroscience, engineering, business, eco...
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Academic Press/Elsevier,
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Publisher Address: | London ; San Diego, CA : |
Publication Dates: | [2015] |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Explorations in creativity research
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Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128006481 |
Summary: |
"Animal Creativity and Innovation explores theories and research on animal innovation and creativity, comparing and contrasting it with theory and research on human creativity and innovation. In doing so, it encompasses findings from psychology, biology, neuroscience, engineering, business, ecology, and education. The book includes examples of animal innovation in parrots, dogs, marine mammals, insects, and primates, exploring parallels from creative play in children. The book defines creativity, differentiating it from play, and looks at evolutionary models and neurological constructs. The book further explores applied aspects of animal innovation and creativity including tool use and group dynamics, as well as barriers to creativity. The final chapters look into how creative behavior may be taught or trained. Each chapter is followed by a commentary for integration of thoughts and ideas between animal and human research, behavioral and cognitive research, and theory and observation in real life."--Provided by publisher. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxi, 516 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9780128007136 0128007133 |
Index Number: | QL785 |
CLC: | Q958.12 |
Contents: |
Evidences of creativity : Creativity and innovation in the Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) / Creativity in the interaction: the case of dog-human play / Exploration technique and technical innovations in corvids and parrots / Cetacean innovation / Requirements for creativity : Creativity, play, and the pace of evolution / The evolution of innovativeness: exaptation or specialized adaptation? / The creative cerebellum: insight from animal and human studies / Animal creativity: cross-species studies of cognition / The struggle for creativity : Brain size and innovation in primates / Minding the gap: a comparative approach to studying the development of innovation / Necessity, unpredictability and opportunity: an exploration of ecological and social drivers of behavioral innovation / Cognitive and noncognitive aspects of social learning / Of course animals are creative: insights from generativity theory / Pushing the boundaries of creativity : Conservatism versus innovation: the great ape story / Tools for the trees: orangutan arboreal tool use and creativity / Insects as a model system to understand the evolutionary implications of innovation / Creating creative animals / Animal creativity and innovation: an integrated look at the field / |