Comparative Perspectives in Modern Psychology
Comparative Perspectives in Modern Psychology

Author: Daniel W. Leger

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780803279261

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The study of animal behavior throws light on everything said to be ?natural?: social and family relations, mating, communication, and learning. Comparative Perspectives in Modern Psychology illustrates that human behavior is best understood through a method of comparative psychology, based on evolutionary theory that views behavior as the result of the complex interplay of genetics and environment. Contents include: ?The Comparative Psychology of Monogamy? by Donald A. Dewsbury; ?Coming to Terms with the Everyday Language of Comparative Psychology? by Meredith J. West and Andrew P. King; ?The Darwinian Psychology of Discriminative Parental Solicitude? by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson; ?A Comparative Approach to Vocal Communication? by Charles T. Snowdon; ?A New Look at Ape Language: Comprehension of Vocal Speech and Syntax? by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh; ?A Synthetic Approach to the Study of Animal Intelligence? by Alan C. Kamil.

Psychology, Fourth Edition
Psychology, Fourth Edition

Author: Peter O. Gray

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 844

ISBN-13: 9780716751625

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The new edition of Gray's acclaimed text, featuring dramatic new coverage of sensation and perception and new media tools that actively involve students in psychological research.

Psychology
Psychology

Author: Peter O. Gray

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-04-07

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 9780716776901

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An introductory text that explores Psychology's major theories, and the evidence that supports and refutes them. This title incorporates research, helping students to probe for the purposes and biological origins of behavior - the 'whys' and 'hows' of Human Psychology.

After Piaget
After Piaget

Author: Eduardo Marti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1351533460

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After Piaget proves that Jean Piaget's work is critical for understanding some of the most current proposals in the study of psychological development. It analyzes Piaget's legacy, moving beyond the harsh critiques that have circulated since he lost prominence. It also brings together new developments and research practices that have grown out of Jean Piaget's tradition, while providing a retrospective glance into the intellectual atmospheres of different periods at which the contributors encountered Piaget.This book reveals the richness and coherence of the School of Geneva's research during the last decades before Piaget's death. Contributions from scholars who formed part of the School of Geneva during the 1970s and '80s demonstrate Piaget's influence on such diverse fields as infant development, ethnology, neuropsychology, semiotic development, and epistemology. After Piaget is part of Transaction's History and Theory of Psychology series.

Adaptation and the Brain
Adaptation and the Brain

Author: Susan D. Healy

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0199546754

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What role has natural selection played in shaping the structure and function of the vertebrate brain? This accessible book unravels the myriad adaptive explanations that have built up over decades, providing both a review and a critique of the work that has sought to explain which natural selection pressures have led to changes in brain size.

The Evolution of Language
The Evolution of Language

Author: Angelo Cangelosi

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9812566562

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This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts from the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG6). The biennial EVOLANG conference focuses on the origins and evolution of human language, and brings together researchers from many disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, artificial life, biology, cognitive science, computer science, ethology, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, palaeontology, primatology, and psychology.The collection presents the latest theoretical, experimental and modeling research on language evolution, and includes contributions from the leading scientists in the field, including T Fitch, V Gallese, S Mithen, D Parisi, A Piazza & L Cavali Sforza, R Seyfarth & D Cheney, L Steels, L Talmy and M Tomasello.

Avian Cognition
Avian Cognition

Author: Carel ten Cate

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1107092388

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An overview of current research and experimental approaches in avian cognition and how this relates to other species.

Neuroethological Studies Of Cognitive And Perceptual Processes
Neuroethological Studies Of Cognitive And Perceptual Processes

Author: Cynthia Moss

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-12

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 042996725X

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How do bats catch insects in the dark? How do bees learn which flowers to visit? How do food-storing birds remember where their hoards are? Questions like these are addressed by neuroethology, the branch of behavioral neuroscience concerned with analyzing the neural bases of naturally occurring behaviors. This book brings together thirteen chapters presenting findings on perceptual and cognitive processes in some of the most active areas of neuroethological research, including auditory localization by bats and owls, song perception and learning in birds, pitch processing by frogs and toads, imprinting in birds, spatial memory in birds, learning in bees and in Aplysia, and electroreception in fish. A variety of approaches are represented, such as field studies, psychophysical tests, electrophysiological experiments, lesion studies, comparative neuroanatomy, and studies of development. Each chapter gives an up-to-date overview of a particular author’s research and places it within the broader context of issues about animal perception and cognition. The book as a whole exemplifies how studying species and their particular specializations can inform general issues in psychology, ethology, and neuro-science.

Reaching Into Thought
Reaching Into Thought

Author: Anne E. Russon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-11-26

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780521644969

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This book investigates current field and theoretical information on great ape cognition.

Cognitive Ecology II
Cognitive Ecology II

Author: Reuven Dukas

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-11-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0226169375

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Merging evolutionary ecology and cognitive science, cognitive ecology investigates how animal interactions with natural habitats shape cognitive systems, and how constraints on nervous systems limit or bias animal behavior. Research in cognitive ecology has expanded rapidly in the past decade, and this second volume builds on the foundations laid out in the first, published in 1998. Cognitive Ecology II integrates numerous scientific disciplines to analyze the ecology and evolution of animal cognition. The contributors cover the mechanisms, ecology, and evolution of learning and memory, including detailed analyses of bee neurobiology, bird song, and spatial learning. They also explore decision making, with mechanistic analyses of reproductive behavior in voles, escape hatching by frog embryos, and predation in the auditory domain of bats and eared insects. Finally, they consider social cognition, focusing on alarm calls and the factors determining social learning strategies of corvids, fish, and mammals. With cognitive ecology ascending to its rightful place in behavioral and evolutionary research, this volume captures the promise that has been realized in the past decade and looks forward to new research prospects.