Screen LibraryThe Oxford handbook of comparative cognition
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford library of psychology |
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| Item Description: | Comparative cognition. |
| Carrier Form: | xxvi, 914 p.: ill. ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780195392661 (alk. paper) 0195392663 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | Q958 |
| CLC: | Q958.12-62 |
| Call Number: | Q958.12-62/O984 |
| Contents: |
Rev. ed. of: Comparative cognition. 2006. Includes bibliographical references and index. Part I: Perception and Illusion. Grouping and Segmentation in human and nonhuman primates / Joe l Fagot, Isabelle Barbet, and Carole Parron ; Seeing What Is Not There: Illusion, Completion, and Spatiotemporal Boundary Formation in Comparative Perspective / Kazuo Fujita ; The Cognitive Chicken: Visual and Spatial Cognition in a Nonmammalian Brain / Giorgio Vallortigara ; New Perspectives on Absolute Pitch in Birds and Mammals / Ronald G. Weisman, Douglas J. K. Mewhort, Marisa Hoeschele, and Christopher B. Sturdy. -- Part II: Attention and Search. Reaction-time Explorations of Visual Percepti "In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition contains sectio |