Description: Cognitive EcologyAuthor(s): Reuven Dukas Format: Paperback Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 9780226169330, 978-0226169330 Synopsis This study examines how the environment shapes the way an animal processes information and makes decisions, and how constraints imposed on nervous systems affect an animal's activities. To help answer these questions, this text integrates evolutionary ecology and cognitive science, demonstrating how studies of perception, memory and learning can deepen understanding of animal behaviour and ecology. The book considers such issues as: the evolution of learning and its influence on behaviour; the effects of cognitive mechanisms on the evolution of signalling behaviour; how neurobiological and evolutionary processes have shaped navigational activities; functional and mechanical explanations for altered behaviours in response to changing environments; how foragers make decisions and how these decisions are influenced by the risk of predation; and how cognitive mechanisms affect partner choice. The study should encourage biologists to consider how animal cognition affects behaviour, and should also interest comparative psychologists and cognitive scientists.
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Book Title: Cognitive Ecology
Number of Pages: 430 Pages
Publication Name: Cognitive Ecology: the Evolutionary Ecology of Information Processing and Decision Making
Language: English
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 227 mm
Subject: Zoology, Biology
Publication Year: 1998
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 588 g
Subject Area: Developmental Psychology
Author: Reuven Dukas
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Paperback
