Primate Cognition
ISBN13: 9780195106244ISBN10: 0195106245
Paperback,
528 pages
Sep 1997,
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1.
Introduction
1.1.
Historical Background
1.2.
The Ecological Approach to Cognition
1.3.
Primates and Their Lives
1.4.
Plan of the Book
PART I: Knowledge of the Physical World
2.
Space and Objects
2.1.
Cognitive Mapping
2.2.
Searching for Hidden Objects
2.3.
Tracking Invisible Displacements
2.4.
Other Forms of Spatial Understanding
2.5.
What Primates Know About Space and Objects
3.
Tools and Causality
3.1.
Object Manipulation
3.2.
Tool Use
3.3.
Causal Understanding
3.4.
What Primates Know About Tools and Causality
4.
Features and Categories
4.1.
Discrimination Learning
4.2.
Natural Categories
4.3.
Relational Categories
4.4.
Classification
4.5.
What Primates Know About Features and Categories
5.
Quantities
5.1.
Estimating Numerousness
5.2.
Ordinality and Transitivity
5.3.
Counting, Summation, and Proportions
5.4.
Conservation of Quantities
5.5.
What Primates Know About Quantities
6.
Theories of Primate Physical Cognition
6.1.
Summary of Primate Physical Cognition
6.2.
Theories of Proximate Mechanism
6.3.
Theories of Ultimate Causation
6.4.
Directions for Future Research
6.5.
Conclusion
PART II: Knowledge of the Social World
7.
Social Knowledge and Interaction
7.1.
The Social Field
7.2.
Coalitions and Alliances
7.3.
Reciprocity and Interchange
7.4.
Cooperative Problem-Solving
7.5.
What Primates Know About Others in Social Interaction
8.
Social Strategies and Communication
8.1.
Social Strategies: Deception
8.2.
Intentional Communication: Gestures
8.3.
Intentional Communication: Vocalizations
8.4.
Communication with Humans
8.5.
What Primates Know About Others in Communication
9.
Social Learning and Culture
9.1.
Behavioral Traditions in the Wild
9.2.
Social Learning of Instrumental Activities
9.3.
Social Learning of Communicative Signals and Gestures
9.4.
Teaching
9.5.
What Primates Know About Others in Social Learning
10.
Theory of Mind
10.1.
Understanding Behavior and Perception
10.2.
Understanding Intentions and Attention
10.3.
Understanding Knowledge and Beliefs
10.4.
Understanding Self
10.5.
What Primates Know About Others' Mental States
11.
Theories of Primate Social Cognition
11.1.
Summary of Primate Social Cognition
11.2.
Theories of Proximate Mechanism
11.3.
Theories of Ultimate Causation
11.4.
Directions for Future Research
11.5.
Conclusion
PART III: A Theory of Primate Cognition
12.
Nonhuman Primate Cognition
12.1.
Uniquely Primate Cognition
12.2.
Issues of Proximate Mechanism
12.3.
Issues of Ultimate Causation
12.4.
The Structure of Primate Cognition
13.
Human Cognition
13.1.
Human Cognitive Development
13.2.
Ontogenetic Processes
13.3.
Phylogenetic Processes
13.4.
The Structure of Human Cognition
14.
Conclusion
14.1.
Theory
14.2.
Research
14.3.
The Preservation of Primates
Appendix
References
Author Index
Species Index
Subject Index
