Primate Cognition: Volume 1: Social Cognition - Brossura

Call, Josep; Tomasello, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0198910622 ISBN 13: 9780198910626

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2024

Riassunto

First published in 1997, Primate Cognition was a groundbreaking and highly successful book that set the agenda for a new field of study. Borrowing theoretical constructs and paradigms from human cognitive science and developmental psychology, the book reviewed all of the empirical research existing at that time concerning both physical cognition (space and objects, tools and causality, features and categories, and quantities) as well as social cognition (social knowledge and interaction, social strategies and communication, social learning and culture, and theory of mind).

Since that time research on primate cognition has burgeoned, and this all-new second edition mainly focuses on research conducted after 1997. It is divided into two volumes, the current volume on Primate Social Cognition and a forthcoming volume on Primate Physical Cognition. Existing areas of research are updated with the latest findings, and there are several areas of research that for all practical purposes did not exist at the time of the first edition, for example, on prosocial behavior, behavior in social dilemmas, and metacognition. There is also a chapter on theories of primate social cognition and an account of how the human primate fits into the overall evolutionary picture. This second edition of Primate Cognition provides an up-to-date survey of the field.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Josep Call is a comparative psychologist specializing in primate cognition, Wardlaw Professor in the Evolutionary Origins of Mind at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Budongo (Chimpanzee) Research Unit (Edinburgh Zoo). Prior to his current post he was a lecturer (School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool) and a senior scientist (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology). Josep obtained a BA (Psychology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) and a Master and PhD (Psychology, Emory University). He has been elected fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Cognitive Science Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy.


Michael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. His research interests focus on processes of cooperation, communication, and cultural learning in human children and great apes.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0198910622
• ISBN 13: 9780198910626
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Contatto del produttore: Oxford University Press; https://corp.oup.com/; ; WMF Platz 1; Geislingen/Steige; Baden-W?rttemberg; 73312; Germania