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.

Reviews

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.
*Michael J. Beran in PsycCRITIQUES (for the previous edition)*

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.
*Peter Balsam, Samuel R Milbank Professor of Psychology, Barnard College and Columbia University (for the previous edition)*

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.
*Mark E. Bouton, Professor of Psychology, University of Vermont (for the previous editon)*

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.
*Michael Domjan, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas (for the previous edition)*

Comparative Cognition will be an invaluable resource for all working or being interested in the wide field of comparative psychology and neuroscience.
*European Journal of Neurology (for the previous edition)*

Excellent book...Highly recommended.
*Choice (for the previous edition)*