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COMPARATIVE VERTEBRATE COGNITION: Are Primates Superior to Non-Primates?

		Edited by Lesley J. Rogers and Gisela Kaplan
		Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behavior
		School of Biological, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
		University of New England
		Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
		
		Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects, Volume 3
		Series editor: Russell H. Tuttle, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
		Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004
		
		PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
		
		This book explores afresh the long-standing interest, and emphasis on, the 
		'special' capacities of primates. Some of the recent discoveries of the 
		higher cognitive abilities of other mammals and also birds challenge the 
		concept that primates are special and even the view that the cognitive 
		ability of apes is more advanced than that of nonprimate mammals and birds. 
		It is therefore timely to ask whether primates are, in fact, special and to 
		do so from a broad range of perspectives. Divided into five sections this 
		book deals with topics about higher cognition and how it is manifested in 
		different species, and also considers aspects of brain structure that might 
		be associated with complex behavior.
		
		It will become apparent to the reader that researchers are only at the 
		beginning of the search to find out whether primates are special and, of 
		course, by 'special' is meant not just different, which applies to all 
		biological categories, but 'better' in the ephemeral sense of being more 
		like us and being cognitively superior to all other species.
		
		This volume, voicing the opinions of some leading primatologists, 
		ethologists, psychobiologists, neuroscientists and anthropologists, is not 
		speaking from the standpoint of a political engagement with primates but of 
		a scientific engagement with primates in relation to all other species.
		
		TABLE OF CONTENTS
		
		Contributors    xv
		
		PART I: COMPLEX COGNITION
		1. Comparing the Complex Cognition of
		Birds and Primates   3
		Nathan J. Emery and Nicola S. Clayton
		Introduction    3
		Why Might Primates be Superior to Non-Primates?    5
		Comparing Birds and Primates    5
		Primates have a Neocortex Larger than
		Predicted for their Body Size    5
		Primates have an Expanded Prefrontal Cortex    8
		Primates Demonstrate Social Learning and Imitation    9
		Primates Understand Others' Mental States    14
		Primates Display Insight, Innovation, and they
		Construct and Use Tools    23
		Insight and Innovation    23
		Manufacture and Use of Tools    25
		Primates Utilize Symbolic and Referential Communication    27
		Primates Demonstrate Elements of Mental Time Travel    29
		The Retrospective Component-Episodic Memory?    30
		Do Animals have Episodic-like Memory?    31
		Episodic-like Memory in Scrub-Jays     32
		The Prospective Component-Future Planning    33
		Is there any Evidence of Future Planning in Animals?    35
		Food Caching by Scrub-Jays: A Candidate for
		 Future Planning in Animals?    36
		The Perils of Primatocentrism and "Scala Naturae"    36
		Uses and Abuses of the Ecological/Ethological Approach
		to Cognition    38
		Species Differences in Ecology and Cognition    39
		Ethologically Relevant Stimuli are Difficult to Control    40
		How Far can the Natural Behavior of
		an Animal be Translated to the Laboratory?    41
		The Great Divide: Awareness of "Self"     41
		Is there a Case for Convergent Cognitive Evolution
		and Divergent Neurological Evolution?    45
		Acknowledgments    46
		References    46
		
		2.Visual Cognition and Representation in
		Birds and Primates    57
		Giorgio Vallortigara
		Introduction    57
		Integration and Interpolation of Visual Information
		in the Spatial Domain    58
		Integration and Interpolation of Visual Information
		in the Temporal Domain    69
		Representing Objects    72
		Objects in Space: Use of Geometric
		 and Nongeometric Information    77
		Conclusions    84
		Acknowledgments    85
		References    85
		
		PART II: SOCIAL LEARNING
		3. Socially Mediated Learning among Monkeys
		and Apes: Some Comparative Perspectives    97
		Hilary 0. Box and Anne E. Russon
		Introduction    97
		Socially Mediated Learning    98
		Imitation    106
		Imitation in Monkeys    106
		Imitation in Great Apes    110
		Primate Imitation in Broader Perspective    115
		Culture    118
		Behavioral Traditions among Monkeys    119
		Behavioral Traditions among the Great Apes    121
		Facilitating Influences on Behavioral Traditions
		among Great Apes    123
		References    127
		
		4. Social Learning, Innovation, and Intelligence in Fish    141
		Yfke van Bergen, Kevin N. Laland, and William Hoppitt
		Introduction    141
		Traditions and Social Learning in Guppies     144
		Innovation in Guppies-Is Necessity the Mother of Invention?    148
		Conformity and Social Release    152
		Primate Supremacy Reconsidered    156
		Conclusions    163
		Acknowledgments    164
		References    164
		
		PART III: COMMUNICATION
		5. The Primate Isolation Call: A Comparison with
		Precocial Birds and Non-primate Mammals    171
		John D. Newman
		Introduction    171
		The Mammalian Isolation Call    172
		The Primate Isolation Call    174
		Isolation Call Development    175
		A Well-Studied Primate    176
		Neurochemical (Pharmacological) Control
		of Isolation Call Production    177
		Neural Mechanisms of Isolation Call Production    177
		Neural Mechanisms of Isolation Call Perception    179
		Conclusions    181
		References    181
		
		6. Meaningful Communication in Primates, Birds,
		and Other Animals    189
		Gisela Kaplan
		Introduction    189
		Communication from the Point of View of the Receiver    191
		Referential Signaling    191
		Vocal Signaling in General    191
		Motivational versus Referential Signals    192
		Attributing Meaning in Alarm and Food Calling    194
		Deception in Vocal Signaling    197
		Nonvocal Communication    199
		Human Language and Animal Studies    201
		Co-evolutionary Events    204
		Complex Communication, Social Organization, and the Hunt    205
		Advantages of Living Together    207
		Hierarchy, Group Complexity, and Feeding    212
		Conclusion    214
		References    215
		
		PART IV: THEORY OF MIND
		7. Theory of Mind and Insight in Chimpanzees,
		Elephants, and Other Animals?    227
		Moti Nissan
		Elephant Cognition    228
		Do Elephants and Chimpanzees know that People See?    231
		Experiment 1: Do Elephants know that People See?    240
		Experiment 2: Do Chimpanzees know that People See?    245
		Insight in Animals?    248
		Retractable Cord-Pulling in Elephants    251
		Do Elephants know when to Suck or Blow?    254
		Conclusion    257
		Acknowledgments    257
		References    258
		
		8. The Use of Social Information in
		Chimpanzees and Dogs    263
		Josep Call
		Reading Attention    265
		What can Others See    266
		What Organ is Responsible for Vision    269
		Following Attention    271
		Attention Following into Distant Space    272
		Attention Following in Object Choice    272
		Directing Attention    275
		Discussion    278
		References    283
		
		PART V: BRAIN, EVOLUTION, AND HEMISPHLRIC
		SPECIALIZATION
		9. Increasing the Brain's Capacity: Neocortex, New Neurons,
		and Hemispheric Specialization    289
		Lesley Rogers
		Introduction    289
		Brain Size Relative to Body Weight    290
		 Neocortex/Isocortex    296
		Frontal Lobes    299
		Relative Differences in the Size of
		Different Regions of the Brain    299
		Coordinated Size Change    300
		Mosaic Evolution    302
		Linking the Size of Brain Regions to Specific Behavior    304
		Correlations between Brain Size and Behavior    305
		Foraging for Food    305
		Social Intelligence    306
		Social Learning, Innovation, and Tool Use    308
		Hemispheric Specialization    310
		Corpus Callosum    312
		Experience and Brain Size    314
		Assumptions/New Neurons    316
		Conclusion    317
		References    318
		
		10. The Evolution of Lateralized Motor Functions    325
		Michelle A. Hook
		Whole-body Turning    327
		Lower Vertebrates: Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles    327
		Birds    329
		Non-Primate Mammals: Rodents, Dolphins, Cats, and Dogs    329
		Non-Human Primates    331
		Summary of Turning Biases    331
		Hand Preferences for Simple Actions    332
		Lower Vertebrates    332
		Birds    333
		Non-Primate Mammals: Rodents    333
		Non-Primate Mammals: Cats and Dogs    334
		Non-Human Primates    335
		Summary of Hand Preferences for Simple Actions    338
		Complex Visuospatial Tasks    339
		Non-Primate Mammals: Cats    339
		Non-Human Primates    340
		Summary of Complex Visuospatial Tasks    342
		Manipulation and Tool Use    343
		Birds    343
		Non-Human Primates    344
		Summary of Manipulation and Tool Use    345
		Foot Preferences in Locomotion    346
		Birds    346
		Non-Human Primates    347
		Summary of Foot Preferences in Locomotion    348
		Production of Emotional Responses and Vocalizations    348
		Lower Vertebrates: Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles    348
		Birds    349
		Non-Primate Mammals: Rodents    351
		Non-Human Primates    352
		Summary    354
		Are Primates Special?    355
		Acknowledgments    359
		References    359
		
		Epilogue    371
		About the Editors    375
		Index    377
		
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		Posted Date: 02/25/04

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