Cognitive biology:evolutionary and developmental perspectives on mind, brain, and behavior
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MIT Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
Publication Dates: | c2009. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Vienna series in theoretical biology |
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Carrier Form: | x, 342 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780262012935 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262012936 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | B842 |
CLC: | B842-05 |
Call Number: | B842-05/C676 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Cognitive biology : the new cognitive sciences / Luca Tommasi, Lynn Nadel, and Mary A. Peterson -- The role of social selection in the evolution of hippocampal specialization / Lucia F. Jacobs -- Spatial cognition, memory capacity, and the evolution of mammalian hippocampal networks / Alessandro Treves -- Space for the brain in cognitive science / Neil Burgess, Christian F. Doeller, and Chris M. Bird -- Animals as natural geometers / Giorgio Vallortigara -- Is cognitive modularity necessary in an evolutionary account of development? / Nora S. Newcombe ... [et al.] -- Color generalization by birds / Daniel Osorio -- Evolutionary biology of limited attention / Reuven Dukas -- Learning to see and conceive / Robert L. Goldstone ... [et al.] -- A comparative perspective on the origin of numerical thinking / Elizabeth M. Brannon and Jessica F. Cantlon -- Numerical and spatial intuitions : a role for posterior parietal cortex? / Edward M. Hubbard ... [et al.] -- Learning in core and noncore domains / Rochel Gelman -- Neuroscience, psychology, and economic behavior : the emerging field of neuroeconomics / Paul W. Glimcher -- Neuroethology of attention in primates / Stephen V. Shepherd and Michael L. Platt -- The human social brain : an "evo-devo" perspective / Mark H. Johnson -- Ontogenetic development matters / Sylvain Sirois and Annette Karmiloff-Smith. |