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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Mental Lives of Animals: Introduction | |
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| On minds, thought and intelligence in animals | |
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| Historical background: Darwin, Wallace and the minds of beasts | |
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| Two cautionary tales | |
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| Clever Hans: the horse with the intelligence of a 14-year-old child | |
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| Lloyd Morgan's canon--the most awesome weapon in animal psychology | |
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| Now and the future | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Other Minds, Other Matters | |
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| Consciousness in mind | |
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| Imitation--the sincerest form of flattery | |
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| Is that me? Studies on mirror recognition | |
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| Do you see what I see? | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Detecting Cause and Effect | |
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| Pavlovian conditioning | |
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| Outline | |
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| Pavlovian conditioning through the animal kingdom | |
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| What is learned in Pavlovian conditioning? | |
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| Instrumental conditioning | |
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| Outline | |
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| Instrumental conditioning through the animal kingdom | |
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| What is learnt in instrumental conditioning? | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Other Ways of Seeing the World--I: Physical Dimensions | |
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| Vision | |
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| The pigeon's eye view of the world--a case study in animal vision | |
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| Patterns and pictures | |
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| Smell | |
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| Hearing | |
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| Magnetic sensitivity | |
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| Electrical sense | |
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| Sensitivity to air pressure | |
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| Navigation | |
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| Pigeon homing | |
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| The sun compass | |
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| Magnetic compass | |
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| Odour maps | |
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| Bees foraging | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Other Ways of Seeing the World--II: Abstract Dimensions | |
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| Object permanence | |
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| Concept learning | |
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| Same-different | |
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| Stimulus equivalence | |
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| Perceptual concepts | |
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| Time | |
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| Learning about the time of day | |
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| Learning about short time intervals | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Relative number judgments: more or less | |
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| Absolute number | |
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| Counting | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Remembering | |
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| Simple memories | |
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| Short-term memory | |
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| Capacity | |
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| Duration | |
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| Serial order effects | |
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| What causes forgetting? | |
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| Long-term memory | |
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| Food-storing birds | |
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| Marsh tits and chickadees | |
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| Nutcrackers | |
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| Pigeons | |
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| Implicit and explicit memory | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Reasoning | |
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| Spatial reasoning | |
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| Tool use | |
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| Insight | |
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| Reasoning by analogy | |
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| Series learning--I: transitive inference | |
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| Series learning--II: linear ordering | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Communication and Language | |
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| Ape language studies | |
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| Words | |
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| Sentences | |
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| Language training with other species | |
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| Communicating with dolphins | |
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| Irene Pepperberg and Alex | |
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| Animal communication in the wild | |
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| Vervet monkeys of Kenya | |
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| Dolphins | |
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| The dance of the honey-bee | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Conclusions and Comparisons | |
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| Brain size | |
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| Learning set | |
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| Are there really differences between species? | |
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| Further reading | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |