The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition

by Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, Gordon M. Burghardt

Book Overview

The fifty-seven original essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of animal cognition. The contributors include cognitive ethologists, behavioral ecologists, experimental and developmental psychologists, behaviorists, philosophers, neuroscientists, computer scientists and modelers, field biologists, and others. The diversity of approaches is both philosophical and methodological, with contributors demonstrating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262523221
• ISBN13: 9780262523226
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher