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Cognitive Ecology II
Dukas, Reuven, Ratcliffe, John M
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Description for Cognitive Ecology II
Hardcover. Integrates numerous scientific disciplines to analyze the ecology and evolution of animal cognition. This title covers the mechanisms, ecology, and evolution of learning and memory, including analyses of bee neurobiology, bird song, and spatial learning. Editor(s): Dukas, Reuven; Ratcliffe, John M. Num Pages: 496 pages, 45 halftones, 52 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: PSVP; PSVS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 622.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226169354
SKU
V9780226169354
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Ref
99-15
About Dukas, Reuven, Ratcliffe, John M
Reuven Dukas is associate professor of psychology, neuroscience, and behavior, and a member of the Animal Behaviour Group at McMaster University. John M. Ratcliffe is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Sound Communication at the Institute of Biology of the University of Southern Denmark.
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