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| | Animal cognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The success of cognitive psychology in addressing human mental processes, from the late 1950s on, led to a re-evaluation of the research paradigm, and researchers began to address animal mental processes from the opposite direction, by taking what is known about human mental processes and looking for evidence of comparable processes in other species. | | | For most of the twentieth century, the dominant approach to animal psychology was to use experiments on intelligence in animals to uncover simple processes (such as classical conditioning and operant conditioning) that might then account for the apparently more complex intellectual abilities of human beings. | | | Given the broad programme of animal cognition, of looking for the animal analogues of human cognitive processes, the areas of study in animal cognition follow more or less from those in human cognitive psychology. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_cognition
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| | Animal Cognition Laboratory |
| | The goal of the lab is to explore the cognitive abilities of pigeons. | | | Ferris State University’s animal cognition lab consists of two research labs and a colony room to house the pigeons that are used as subjects. | | | Weaver’s current experiment explores mechanisms responsible for animal inferences (e.g., knowing that A is greater than C, after being trained that A is greater than B, and that B is greater than C). |
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http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/colleges/artsands/SocSci/AnimalLab
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| | Harvard University Press/Animal Cognition/Reviews |
| | Animal cognition has been in danger of becoming something of a bandwagon, with researchers nourishing their own theoretical idiosyncrasies, speculating on the basis of their own particular experiments on their own particular species. | | | Animal Cognition accounts for all the main study areas as well as some key experiments [in comparative psychology]. | | | Those outside of comparative psychology and cognitive research will be enlightened by reading this careful summation of experimental approaches to questions of animal cognition, along with Vauclair's arguments both for and against continuity between humans and other animals. |
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http://www.hup.harvard.edu/reviews/VAUANI_R.html
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| | Excerpt from Donald R. Griffin, Animal Minds |
| | Animal thoughts and emotions presumably concern matters of immediate importance to the animals themselves, rather than kinds of conscious thinking that are primarily relevant to human affairs. | | | One result is that students of animal behavior are inhibited from reporting versatile behavior that suggests conscious thinking, and scientific journals sometimes refuse to publish data or interpretations that support the inference of animal consciousness, as described by Searle (1990a, 1990b), Whiten and Byrne (1988), and Heinrich (1995, 1999). | | | Animals encounter so many unpredictable challenges under natural conditions that it would be very difficult if not impossible for any combination of genetic instructions and individual experience to specify in advance the entire set of actions that are appropriate. |
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/308650.html
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| | Animal Cognition and Learning |
| | This course is concerned with the experimental analysis of cognition and behavior in animals. | | | The role of evolution and ecology in behavior and cognition | | | In addition to discussing basic experimental results about cognition and intelligence in animals, an important emphasis will be placed on the logic and evidence used to justify any theoretical conclusions. |
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http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/default.htm
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| | Animal Cognition 1999 |
| | Animal Cognition is the science of how animals learn and communicate. | | | Since we cannot normally understand or communicate directly with most other species has with animals in the same way that we communicate with other people, humans have developed three major ways of working with animals for an better understanding of their mental processes: (1) Ethological studies, (2) Behavioral studies, and (3) Interspecific communication. | | | This site considers some major strands in the history of approaches to the study of animal behavior and cognition. |
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http://www.peace.saumag.edu/faculty/kardas/courses/CS/Student%20Pages/Animal%20Cognition/Animal%20Cognition.html
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| | COGNITIVE SCIENCE: ON ANIMAL COGNITION |
| | Griffin argued that the complexity of animal behavior implies conscious beliefs and desires, and that an anthropomorphic explanation can be more parsimonious than one built solely on behavioral laws. | | | 3) This rejection of anthropomorphism was one of the few founding principles of behaviorism that survived the rise of ethological and cognitive approaches to studying animal behavior. | | | Although anthropomorphism may on occasion be a source of useful hypotheses about animal behavior, acknowledging this does not concede the general utility of an anthropomorphic approach to animal behavior.(1-4) |
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http://scienceweek.com/2004/sa040820-4.htm
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| | Scientists Map Brain's Primary Memory Network |
| | At the end of the delay, both levers appear, and the animal is supposed to press he lever it did not press at the outset of the trial. | | | It is pressed by the animal, then retracted, followed by a delay period in which the rat must engage in other unrelated activity. | | | However, as the delay becomes longer it is more likely that animals will not remember which lever it pressed at the start and chose the wrong lever at the end of the delay. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/12/991213052125.htm
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| | Research of the Emerging Focus BIOLOGY OF COGNITION |
| | Recently we have begun accompanying studies on the perception of biological motion to serve social recognition, the abstraction of three-dimensional structure from motion, and the functional asymmetry of the pigeon brain. | | | The main body of our scientific work is concerned with the mechanisms of higher-order perception and cognition in non-human animals. | | | For almost a decade we have been studying the adaptive modification of behavior by means of both individual and social learning. |
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http://www.univie.ac.at/zoologie/theo/theoRes.htm
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| | The KLI Theory Lab - keywords - animal cognition |
| | Keywords: animal cognition • language • philosophy of biology • psychology of language. | | | Allen, C. Assessing animal cognition: Ethological and philosophical perspectives. | | | The KLI Theory Lab - keywords - animal cognition |
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http://www.kli.ac.at/theorylab/Keyword/A/AnimalCogn.html
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| | Animal Cognition - Evolutionary Ecology of Perception Learning and Memory |
| | Animal Cognition - Evolutionary Ecology of Perception Learning and Memory | | | Our experimental approaches are largely empirical and involve coordinating experiments in both the laboratory and the field. | | | Edinburgh University has two key research groups currently addressing issues relating to animal perception, learning and memory. |
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http://cognition.icapb.ed.ac.uk
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| | UWO Psychology :::::: Animal Cognition |
| | The Animal Cognition Research Group has outstanding facilities for field and laboratory research. | | | The Animal Cognition Research Group at the University of Western Ontario offers an intensive research program leading to M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. | | | Nancy K. Innis - History of psychology and animal cognition |
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http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/psychology/bcn_animal.htm
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| | Animal Cognition |
| | Began his studies of animal behavior as a child. | | | psychology with a specialty in animal behavior (ethology). | | | She teaches courses in physical anthropology, primate behavior, ape language, and cognitive and linguistic anthropology. |
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http://www.psyking.net/id210.htm
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| | Studies of Animal Cognition |
| | Galef, B. (1988) Imitation in animals: History, definition, and interpretation of data from the psychological laboratory. | | | Timberlake, W. and Grant, D. (1975) Autoshaping in rats to the presentation of another rat predicting food. | | | In: Goals, No-Goals and Own Goals: A Debate on Goal-Directed and Intentional Behaviour, eds. |
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http://www.philosophy.ucf.edu/animals.html
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| | The Cognitive Animal |
| | Center for Research in Psychology of Cognition, Language and Emotion, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, | | | Psychology and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington | | | "A cognitive approach to the study of animal cooperation." page 1 |
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http://grimpeur.tamu.edu/~colin/TheCognitiveAnimal
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| | Project Delphis |
| | Included in this journal is our paper outlining our research results, followed by commentary articles from a range of other animal awareness researchers. | | | to conduct scientific research on the behavior and cognition of dolphins and learn more about their minds, and contribute these findings to the scientific literature; |
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http://www.earthtrust.org/delphis.html
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| | Cogprints - Subject: Animal Cognition |
| | Embodied Cognition and Perceptual Learning in Adaptive Development. | | | Anderson, Dr. Michael L. Cognitive science and epistemic openness. | | | Kristal, Mark B. and Axelrod, Seymour and Noonan, Michael (1978) Learning in escape/avoidance tasks in female rats does not vary with reproductive condition. |
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http://cogprints.org/view/subjects/bio-ani-cog.html
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| | Post-Doctoral Position in Animal Cognition |
| | The position is part of an NSF and NIMH-supported research program employing operant techniques to investigate the cognitive mechanisms involved in social interactions, building on previous studies of transitive inference in pinyon jays. | | | Opportunity to join the University of Nebraska Center for Avian Cognition, an active interdisciplinary research group concerned with a broad array of behavioral and cognitive studies, approached within an evolutionary or ecological perspective. | | | Applicants should have a strong interest or background in animal cognition or cognitive psychology. |
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http://www.animalbehavior.org:8081/ABS/ABSNews/1111635243
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| | Animal Intelligence |
| | When our goal is to put the "simplest" animal at one end of a continuum and humans at the other, we may be limiting our discoveries by asking the wrong question. | | | We also know of dogs and birds that learn to manipulate string and door handles without ever being shown how they might work. | | | The answer, for those who believe animals communicate among themselves and, like humans, learn to communicate with other species, seems to be that animals do have their own language and can learn other languages. |
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http://www.pethelp.net/cognit.html
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| | Animal cognition and culture |
| | is the scientific study of animal behavior, especially as it occurs in a natural environment. | | | Dukas, R. and Real, L.A. Cognition in bees: From stimulus reception to behavioral change," in Papaj, D.R., and Lewis, A.C. (eds.). | | | A recent observation floating around the arachnology world is that salticids (jumping spiders) have some interesting cognitive abilities, in addition to an extraordinary good eyesight. |
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http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/Ethology.html
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| | Animal Cognition Fellowship at Think Tank - National Zoo FONZ |
| | Proposed research must focus on cognition, be non-invasive, and must incorporate animal care and public education. | | | One research fellowship on animal cognition at the pre- or post-doctoral level is available at Think Tank, an exhibit on animal thinking. | | | Other species in the zoo collection may be available for comparative studies. |
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http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ThinkTank/CognitionFellowships/default.cfm
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| | Animal Cognition at the University of Vienna |
| | Since a decade our group is studying the adaptive modification of behavior by means of both individual and social learning. | | | , Inc. - Instrumentation and Software for Animal Behavior Research | | | The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour |
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| | Contributions of Dr. W. K. Honig |
| | In S.H. Hulse, H. Fowler, and W.K. Honig (Eds.), Cognitive Processes in Animal Behavior. | | | of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 21, 348-363. | | | Spatial Orientation in Animals and Man. Martinus Nijhoff, 1987, 73-88. |
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http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/vhonig/honig_vita.htm
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| | Cued and Detached Representations in Animal Cognition |
| | This paper analyzes the function of certain aspects of cognition, like planning, deceiving, self-awareness, and communication. | | | Detached representations stand for objects or events that are neither present in the situation nor triggered by some recent situation. | | | Lund University Cognitive Studies 38 ISSN 1101-8453 ISRN LUHFDA/HFKO-5027--SE |
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http://lucs.fil.lu.se/Abstracts/LUCS_Studies/LUCS38.html
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| | Animal Cognition |
| | The Expressions of Emotion in Man and in Animals | | | may be an easier arena for cognitive science experiments | | | Humans can discuss their cognitions with each other, but humans cannot do so with animals. |
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http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/kardas/Courses/CS/Lectures/AnimalCognition.html
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| | Essay: Animal Cognition |
| | Summary: In this paper, there will be a discussion on animal cognition, addressing both the psychological and biological aspects of the argument. | | | Both sides of the debate will be explored in an attempt to shed some light on whether in fact animals have cognitive skills. |
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http://www.essays-now.com/show_report.php?r_id=2896
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| | Symposium on Animal Cognition |
| | The topic of this year's symposium was the relevance of animal cognition to human cognition. | | | Speakers at the Symposium will also present recent work in the field of animal cognition. | | | 1994 Cognitive Science Conference Symposium on Animal Cognition will address issues in animal reasoning, animal communication, the possibility of animal language, and comparative animal-human studies. |
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http://www.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/students/centaur/animalcog.html
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| | Animal Cognition Laboratory |
| | Information about research in the Animal Cognition Lab |
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| | Animal Cognition: The Mental Lives of Animals - Compare prices |
| | Animal Cognition: The Mental Lives of Animals - Compare prices | | | Home > Books > Animal Cognition: The Mental Lives of Animals | | | Sorry we could not find a review for this Book |
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