Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used in this field was developed from comparative psychology. It has also been strongly influenced by research in ethology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary psychology; the alternative name cognitive ethology is sometimes used. Many behaviors associated with the term animal intelligence are also subsumed within animal cognition.
Researchers have examined animal cognition in mammals (especially primates, cetaceans, elephants, dogs, cats, pigs, horses, cattle, raccoons and rodents), birds (including parrots, fowl, corvids and pigeons), reptiles (lizards, snakes, and turtles), fish and invertebrates (including cephalopods, spiders and insects).
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
Towards ending the animal cognition war
- Chapter 2
Theoretical virtues in eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition
- Chapter 3
Electroacupuncture attenuates cognition impairment via anti-neuroinflammation in an Alzheimer’s disease animal model
- Chapter 4
Indices of comparative cognition
- Chapter 5
Building Thinking Machines by Solving Animal Cognition Tasks
- Chapter 6
The detour paradigm in animal cognition
- Chapter 7
Thinking chickens a review of cognition, emotion, and behavior in the domestic chicken
- Chapter 8
Microglia knockdown reduces inflammation and preserves cognition in diabetic animals after experimental
- Chpter 9
General ecological information supports engagement with affordances for ‘higher’ cognition
- Chapter 10
Extended spider cognition
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Russell David Gray
School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Hein van den Berg
Department of Philosophy, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Oude Turfmarkt 143, Room 0.12, 1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Matthew Crosby
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Imperial College London, London, UK
Can Kabadayi
Department of Cognitive Science, Lund University, Helgonavagen 3, 22100 Lund, Sweden
Hilton F. Japyassu´
Biology Institute, Federal University of Bahia, Rua Barao de Jeremoabo s/n, Campus de Ondina, Salvador, Bahia 40170-115, Brazil
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