The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition: (Oxford Library of Psychology)

In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition. This updated edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition contains sections on perception and illusion, attention and search, memory processes, spatial cognition, conceptualization and categorization, problem solving and behavioral flexibility, and social cognition processes. The authors have incorporated new findings and new theoretical approaches that reflect the current state of the field, including findings in primate tool usage, pattern learning, and counting. This comprehensive volume will be a must-read for students and scientists who are curious about the state the modern science of comparative cognition.

Table of Contents:
Contents 1. Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition Edward A. Wasserman and Thomas R. Zentall I. Perception and Illusion 2. Grouping and Segmentation in human and nonhuman primates Joël Fagot, Isabelle Barbet, and Carole Parron 3. Seeing What Is Not There: Illusion, Completion, and Spatiotemporal Boundary Formation in Comparative Perspective Kazuo Fujita 4. The Cognitive Chicken: Visual and Spatial Cognition in a Nonmammalian Brain Giorgio Vallortigara 5. New Perspectives on Absolute Pitch in Birds and Mammals Ronald G. Weisman, Douglas J. K. Mewhort, Marisa Hoeschele, and Christopher B. Sturdy II. Attention and Search 6. Reaction-time Explorations of Visual Perception, Attention, and Decision in Pigeons Donald S. Blough 7. The Competition for Attention in Humans and Other Animals David A. Washburn and Lauren A. Taglialatela 8. Establishing frames of reference for finding hidden goals: The use of multiple spatial cues by nonhuman animals and people Brett Gibson III. Learning and Causation 9. Contemporary thought on the environmental cues that affect causal attribution Michael E. Young 10. Associative Accounts of Causality Judgments Martha Escobar and Ralph R. Miller 11. Rational Rats: Causal Inference and Representation Aaron P. Blaisdell and Michael R. Waldmann 12. Contrast: A More Parsimonious Account of Cognitive Dissonance Effects Thomas R. Zentall, Rebecca A. Singer, Tricia S. Clement, Andrea M. Friedrich, and Jerome Alessandri IV. Memory Processes 13. Methodological Issues in Comparative Memory Research Thomas R. Zentall 14. Memory Processing Anthony A. Wright 15. The Questions of Temporal and Spatial Displacement in Animal Cognition William A. Roberts 16. Animal Metacognition J. David Smith, Michael J. Beran, and Justin J. Couchman 17. A comparative analysis of episodic memory: Cognitive mechanisms and neural substrates H. Eichenbaum, Magdalena Sauvage, Norbert Fortin, Jonathan Robitsek, and Robert Komorowski 18. Spatial, Temporal, and Associative Behavioral Functions Associated with Different Subregions of the Hippocampus Raymond P. Kesner, Andrea M. Morris, and Christy S.S. Weeden V. Spatial Cognition 19. Arthropod Navigation: Ants, Bees, Crabs, Spiders Finding Their Way Ken Cheng 20. Comparative Spatial Cognition: Encoding of Geometric Information from Surfaces and Landmark Arrays. Debbie M. Kelly and Marcia L. Spetch 21. Corvid Caching: The Role of Cognition S. R. De Kort, N. J. Emery, and N. S. Clayton VI. Timing and Counting 22. Behavioristic, Cognitive, Biological, and Quantitative Explanations of Timing Russell M. Church 23. Sensitivity to Time: Implications for the Representation of Time Jonathon D. Crystal 24. Comparative cognition of number representation Dustin J. Merritt, Nicholas K. DeWind, and Elizabeth M. Brannon 25. Similarities Between Temporal and Numerosity Discriminations J. Gregor Fetterman VII. Categorization and Concept Learning 26. A modified feature theory as an account of pigeon visual categorization Ludwig Huber and Ulrike Aust 27. Artificial Categories and Prototype Effects in Animals Masako Jitsumori 28. Relational Discrimination Learning in Pigeons Robert G. Cook and Edward A. Wasserman 29. Similarity and Difference in the Conceptual Systems of Primates: The Unobservability Hypothesis Jennifer Vonk and Daniel J. Povinelli VIII. Pattern Learning 30. Spatial Patterns: Behavioral Control and Cognitive Representation Michael F. Brown 31. The Organization of Sequential Behavior: Conditioning, Memory, and Abstraction Stephen B. Fountain, James D. Rowan, Melissa D. Muller, Shannon M. A. Kundey, Laura R. G. Pickens, and Karen E. Doyle 32. The Comparative Psychology of Ordinal Knowledge Herbert Terrace 33. Truly Random Operant Responding: Results and Reasons Greg Jensen, Claire Miller, and Allen Neuringer 34. From Momentary Maximizing to Serial Response Times and Artificial Grammar Learning Charles P. Shimp, Walter Herbranson, and Thane Fremouw IX. Problem Solving, Behavioral Flexibility, and Tool Use 35. Intelligences and Brains: An Evolutionary Bird's Eye View Juan D. Delius and Julia A. M. Delius 36. Transitive inference in nonhuman animals Olga F. Lazareva 37. Dolphin Problem Solving Stan A. Kuczaj II and Rachel T. Walker 38. "What" and "Where" Analysis and Flexibility in Avian Visual Cognition Shigeru Watanabe X. Social Cognition Processes 39. Social Learning in Rats: Historical Context and Experimental Findings Bennett G. Galef 40. What Is Challenging About Tool Use? The Capuchin's Perspective Elisabetta Visalberghi and Dorothy Fragaszy 41. Inter-species social learning in dogs: The inextricable roles of phylogeny and ontogeny Monique A. R. Udell, Nicole R. Dorey, Clive D. L. Wynne 42. Social learning: strategies, mechanisms and models Kevin N. Laland, Lewis Dean, Will Hoppitt, Luke Rendell & Mike M. Webster 43. Chimpanzee Social Cognition in Early Life: Comparative-Developmental Perspective Masaki Tomonaga, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, Yuu Mizuno, Sanae Okamoto, Masami K. Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kosugi, Kim A. Bard, Masayuki Tanaka, Tetsuro Matsuzawa 44. Social Learning and Culture in Primates: Evidence from Free-Ranging and Captive Populations Elizabeth E. Price and Andrew Whiten Epilogue: 45. Postscript: An Essay on the Study of Cognition in Animals Stewart H. Hulse Index

About the Author :
Thomas Zentall, Ph.D., is DiSilvestro Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky. Edward A. Wasserman, Ph.D., is Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, DELTA Center, The University of Iowa.

Review :
Those who study comparative cognition find themselves in a particularly prosperous time . . . A diversity of available species to study, opportunities for increased national and international collaboration, and technological advances offer us a greater opportunity for data collection and dissemination than at any time in history. The present book attests to how these opportunities can produce compelling research programs that serve as excellent models for the future of comparative cognition. This book is an outstanding collection of chapters by an exceptional group of researchers. A unique aspect of this collection is the strong reliance on experimental science in each of the research programs. One chapter after another provides a critical analysis of the state of knowledge about a fascinating cognitive ability. How do animals perceive, order, and categorize the world? Do animals remember their own past? Do species differ in their sense of time and space? How flexible are animals in the use of tools and in their problem solving? Are there unique social cognitive processes? Each of these well-written chapters contains enough detail to provide the reader with the information necessary to reach their own conclusions about the validity of an argument. Everyone interested in the cognitive and intellectual capacities of animals should read this book. This book is a gem. It brings together a large, readable, and rich set of chapters by an international group of experts on many of the most important topics in the study of cognitive processes in animals. It will be a 'must read' for students and scientists who are curious about the state of the art of the modern science of comparative cognition. This impressive compendium shows the remarkable breadth and depth of current experimental research in comparative cognition. It is sure to become a major landmark in long history of this continually evolving field. Comparative Cognition will be an invaluable resource for all working or being interested in the wide field of comparative psychology and neuroscience. Excellent book...Highly recommended.