Animal Cognition: A Tribute To Donald A. Riley - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0805811834 ISBN 13: 9780805811834

Casa editrice: Psychology Press, 1993

Riassunto

Prepared as a tribute to Donald A. Riley, the essays that appear here are representative of a research area that has loosely been classified as animal cognition -- a categorization that reflects a functionalist philosophy that was prevalent in Riley's laboratory and that many of his students absorbed. According to this philosophy, it is acceptable to hypothesize that an animal might engage in complex processing of information, as long as one can operationalize evidence for such a process and the hypothesis can be presented in the context of testable predictions that can differentiate it from other mechanisms. The contributions to this volume represent the three most important areas of research in animal cognition -- stimulus representation, memory processes, and perceptual processes -- although current research has considerably blurred these distinctions.

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Thomas R. Zentall

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Psychology Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0805811834
• ISBN 13: 9780805811834
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 370
• Redattore: Zentall Thomas R.
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania