Animal intelligence : from individual to social cognition / Zhanna Reznikova. — Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. – (59.159/R467)

Contents

    Contents
    
    Foreword: An ant's eye view of animal intelligence，<br>    Part I Development of ideas and methods in studying animal intelligence
    Chapter 1 Evolution of views on animal intelligence
    Chapter 2 The dramatic adventures of behaviourism
    Chapter 3 Intelligence under the scalpel: starts and false starts of neuroscience
    Chapter 4 Integrative approaches and coherent movement in studying animal intelligence
    Chapter 5 Ethological approaches for studying animal learning
    Part II Animals are welcomed to the class: learning classes
    Chapter 6 Habituation and associative learning
    Chapter 7 I Learning classes beyond 'simple' associative learning
    Part III Past and future in animal life: remembering， updating and anticipation
    Chapter 8 What is memory for an intelligent animal?
    Chapter 9 Chicks do not suffer from schizophrenia: a brief outline of brain mechanisms for processing and storing memory
    Chapter 10 Behavioural mechanisms of the experience of time
    Part IV Being in the right place at the right time: representation of space and objects in the animal mind
    Chapter 11 Navigation strategies in animals
    Chapter 12 To what degree is mapping cognitive in animals?
    Chapter 13 'Object permanence' in animals
    Part V Experimental approaches to studying essential activities of animal intelligence
    Chapter 14 Conditional discrimination as a basic technique for studying rule learning
    Chapter 15 Categorisation， abstraction and concept formation: are animals logical?
    Chapter 16 Conceptual behaviour based on relations
    Part VI Advanced intelligence in animals: rule extraction， tool-using and number-related skills
    Chapter 17 Insightful behaviour
    Chapter 18 Tool-using as a tool for experimental studies of animal intelligence
    Ghapter 19 I Numerical competence in animals
    Part VII Knowledge is power but not for all: species-specific intelligence
    Chapter 20 Is finding a common metric of intelligence possible in real animal life?
    Chapter 21 An outline of instinctive behaviour
    Chapter 22 Guided learning and cognitive specialisation
    Chapter 23 Developmental studies of animal intelligence role of innate and acquired behaviour
    Chapter 24 Imprinting
    Part VIII Wisdom through social learning
    Chapter 25 Ecological and cognitive aspects of social learning
    Chapter 26 The spread of innovation within populations
    Chapter 27 Culture in animal societies
    Part IX Intelligent communication
    Chapter 28 Can animals exchange meaningful messages? 323
    Chapter 29 Communication， speech and language: what falls to the share of non-humans?
    Chapter 30 Direct dialogue with animals: language-training experiments
    Chapter 31 A battle for the Rosetta Stone: attempts to decipher animals' signals
    Chapter 32 A dialogue with a black box: using ideas and methods of information theory for studying animal communication
    Part X Social life and social intelligence in the wild
    Chapter 33 Diversity of social systems in animals
    Chapter 34 If one must be sacrificed， why me? Evolutionary and behavioural aspects of altruism in animals
    Chapter 35 Intelligence in the context of the functional structure of animal communities
    Chapter 36 What sort of intelligence is required to navigate social landscapes?
    Chapter 37 Theory of Mind
    References
    Index