Comparative psychology is the scientific study of animal cognition and behavior from an evolutionary perspective.
This two-volume handbook presents the different aspects of comparative psychology — behavior, cognition, learning, and neurophysiology — in a balanced and exhaustive manner.
There are 80 chapters across the set, divided into nine parts.
History and Methods constitute the first two parts of the handbook. Key events and basic questions (and controversies) that have shaped the field as well as the methods used to make those questions empirically tractable are presented here.
The next three parts — Adaptation/Evolution, Genes/Hormones, and Neural Substrate — present the conceptual foundations for understanding the genesis of behavior and cognition both from a phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspective.
Finally, the next four parts (Behavior, Perception/Attention, Learning/Motivation, and Cognition/Emotion) are devoted to the core of comparative psychology today.
Comparative psychology is the scientific study of animal cognition and behavior from an evolutionary perspective.
This two-volume handbook presents the different aspects of comparative psychology — behavior, cognition, learning, and neurophysiology — in a balanced and exhaustive manner.
There are 80 chapters across the set, divided into nine parts.
History and Methods constitute the first two parts of the handbook. Key events and basic questions (and controversies) that have shaped the field as well as the methods used to make those questions empirically tractable are presented here.
The next three parts — Adaptation/Evolution, Genes/Hormones, and Neural Substrate — present the conceptual foundations for understanding the genesis of behavior and cognition both from a phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspective.
Finally, the next four parts (Behavior, Perception/Attention, Learning/Motivation, and Cognition/Emotion) are devoted to the core of comparative psychology today.
Volume 1: Basic Concepts, Methods, Neural Substrate, and
Behavior
Editorial Board
About the Editor-in-Chief
Contributors
Series Preface
Introduction
Part I: History and Basic Concepts
Chapter 1: What Is Comparative Psychology?
Josep Call, Gordon M. Burghardt, Irene M. Pepperberg, Charles T.
Snowdon, and Thomas R. Zentall
Chapter 2: Trends and Themes in the History of Comparative
Psychology
Donald A. Dewsbury
Part II: Methods
Chapter 3: Studying Animal Behavior: Integration of Field and
Laboratory Approaches
Charles T. Snowdon and Gordon M. Burghardt
Chapter 4: Observational and Experimental Methods in Comparative
Psychology
Ken Yasukawa and Kristin E. Bonnie
Chapter 5: Collecting Biologically Relevant Information: DNA to
Population Density
Tobias Deschner, Mimi Arandjelovic, and Hjalmar S. Kühl
Chapter 6: Tools for Measuring Animal Cognition: T Mazes to
Touchscreens
David A. Washburn, J. Antonio Salamanca, Rachel C. Callery, and
William Whitham
Chapter 7: Neurons to Networks: Integrative Methods for Studying
Social Behavior
Eileen A. Lacey and Nancy G. Solomon
Chapter 8: From Nonparametric Tests to Mixed Models: A Brief
Overview of Statistical Tools Frequently Used in Comparative
Psychology
Roger Mundry
Chapter 9: Methods and Applications of Animal Personality
Research
Alexander Weiss and Drew M. Altschul
Chapter 10: Phylogenetic Approaches for Research in Comparative
Cognition
Evan L. MacLean and Charles L. Nunn
Part III: Adaptation, Evolution, and Phylogeny
Chapter 11: Behavioral Variation, Adaptation, and Evolution
Delia S. Shelton and Emília P. Martins
Chapter 12: Evolution of Learning and Cognition
Nathan J. Emery
Chapter 13: Evolution and Consequences of Sociality
Judith Maria Burkart
Chapter 14: The Evolution of Language
Michael C. Corballis
Chapter 15: Evolutionary Approaches to Human Psychology
Gillian R. Brown and Catharine P. Cross
Chapter 16: Behavioral, Emotional, and Cognitive Effects of
Domestication
Ruth C. Newberry
Part IV: Genes, Hormones, and Ontogeny
Chapter 17: From Instinct to Behavior Systems: An Integrated
Approach to Ethological Psychology
Gordon M. Burghardt and Robert Ian Bowers
Chapter 18: The Rise of Behavioral Genetics and the Transition to
Behavioral Genomics and Beyond
Oliver Krüger, Peter Korsten, and Joseph I. Hoffman
Chapter 19: Behavioral Endocrinology and Development
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
Chapter 20: Cognitive Development in Comparative Perspective:
Exploring the Role of Language Acquisition in Spatial,
Quantitative, and Memory Development
Nora S. Newcombe
Chapter 21: Filial Attachment: Development, Mechanisms, and
Consequences
Michael B. Hennessy and Harry N. Shair
Chapter 22: Epigenetic Mechanisms Shaping the Brain: Implications
for Psychological Science
Anthony P. Auger and Catherine J. Auger
Part V: Neural Substrate
Chapter 23: Instinctual Foundations of Animal Minds: Comparative
Perspectives on the Evolved Affective Neural Substrate of Emotions
and Learned Behaviors
Jaak Panksepp
Chapter 24: Comparative Vertebrate Nervous Systems
Andrew N. Iwaniuk and Douglas R. Wylie
Chapter 25: Parallel Processing of Spatial and Temporal Information
in Rodents and Humans: Role of the Hippocampus
Raymond Kesner
Chapter 26: The Biopsychology of Birdsong: Birdsong as a Biological
Model for Human Language
Kazuo Okanoya
Chapter 27: Laterality at the Neural, Cognitive, and Behavioral
Levels
Giorgio Vallortigara and Elisabetta Versace
Chapter 28: Neural Networks, Learning, and Intelligence
Bruce J. MacLennan
Chapter 29: Biological Rhythms
Benjamin L. Smarr and Lance J. Kriegsfeld
Part VI: Behavior
Chapter 30: Information, Communication, and Language
Michael D. Beecher
Chapter 31: Referential Communication in Nonhuman Animals
Klaus Zuberbühler and Christof Neumann
Chapter 32: Symbolic Communication in Nonhuman Animals
Irene M. Pepperberg
Chapter 33: Interspecific Communication
Irene M. Pepperberg
Chapter 34: Play and Exploration
Sergio M. Pellis and Gordon M. Burghardt
Chapter 35: Maternal Behavior
Phyllis C. Lee
Chapter 36: Paternal and Alloparental Care
Charles T. Snowdon
Chapter 37: Courtship and Mate Choice
Michael J. Ryan and Lyndon A. Jordan
Chapter 38: Ingestive Behavior
Kurt Schwenk
Chapter 39: Predator–Prey Interactions: Integrating Fear
Effects
Liana Y. Zanette and Michael Clinchy
Chapter 40: Antipredator Behavior
Akira Mori and Ryo Ito
Chapter 41: Why Animals Fight: Uncovering the Function and
Mechanisms of Territorial Aggression
Matthew J. Fuxjager, Xin Zhao, Nathan S. Rieger, and Catherine A.
Marler
Chapter 42: Conflict Resolution
Teresa Romero and Filippo Aureli
Chapter 43: Friendships, Coalitions, and Alliances
Marina Cords and Nicole A. Thompson
Chapter 44: Comparative Studies of Cooperation: Collaboration and
Prosocial Behavior in Animals
Katherine A. Cronin
Chapter 45: Thermoregulation, Energetics, and Behavior
Christopher Harshaw, Mark S. Blumberg, and Jeffrey R. Alberts
Index
Volume 2: Perception, Learning, and Cognition
Editorial Board
Contributors
Part I: Perception, Attention, and Memory
Chapter 1: Animal Psychophysics: The Study of Sensation in
Nonverbal Organisms
John Malone
Chapter 2: Hearing and Communication
Georg M. Klump
Chapter 3: Comparative Visual Perception: An Overview
Olga F. Lazareva
Chapter 4: Chemoreception
Alicia Mathis and Adam L. Crane
Chapter 5: Perceptual and Functional Categorization in Animals
Ulrike Aust
Chapter 6: Object and Picture Perception
Shigeru Watanabe and Ulrike Aust
Chapter 7: Face Perception and Processing in Nonhuman Primates
Ikuma Adachi and Masaki Tomonaga
Chapter 8: Comparative Visual Illusions: Evolutionary,
Cross-Cultural, and Developmental Perspectives
Kazuo Fujita, Noriyuki Nakamura, Sota Watanabe, and Tomokazu
Ushitani
Chapter 9: Selective and Divided Attention in Comparative
Psychology
Walter T. Herbranson
Chapter 10: The Comparative Study of Working Memory
William A. Roberts and Angelo Santi
Chapter 11: Episodic-Like Memory and Mental Time Travel in
Animals
Nicola S. Clayton
Part II: Learning and Motivation
Chapter 12: Ethological and Evolutionary Perspectives on Pavlovian
Conditioning
Mark A. Krause and Michael Domjan
Chapter 13: Comparative Learning and Evolution
Mauricio R. Papini and Carmen Torres
Chapter 14: On the Structure and Role of Optimality Models in the
Study of Behavior
Marco Vasconcelos, Inês Fortes, and Alex Kacelnik
Chapter 15: Decision Making: Rational and Irrational Choice
Thomas Zentall
Chapter 16: Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Preferences, Biases,
and Choice
Alexandra G. Rosati
Chapter 17: Relational Thinking in Animals and Humans: From
Percepts to Concepts
Ed Wasserman, Leyre Castro, and Joël Fagot
Chapter 18: Serial Learning
Greg Jensen
Chapter 19: The Comparative Psychology of Social Learning
Bennett G. Galef and Andrew Whiten
Chapter 20: Animal Social Learning, Culture, and Tradition
Kevin Laland and Cara Evans
Part III: Cognition and Emotion
Chapter 21: Spatial Cognition
Ken Cheng and Kate Jeffery
Chapter 22: Homing and Navigation
David J. Pritchard and Susan D. Healy
Chapter 23: Timing in Animals: From the Natural Environment to the
Laboratory, From Data to Models
Marco Vasconcelos, Marilia Pinheiro de Carvalho, and Armando
Machado
Chapter 24: Intertemporal Choice and Delayed Gratification
Jeffrey R. Stevens
Chapter 25: Quantitative Cognition
Michael J. Beran
Chapter 26: Comparative Metaphysics: Thinking About Objects in
Space and Time
Trix Cacchione and Hannes Rakoczy
Chapter 27: Problem Solving
Amanda Seed and Carolina Mayer
Chapter 28: Animal Creativity and Innovation
Stan A. Kuczaj
Chapter 29: Causal and Inferential Reasoning in Animals
Christoph J. Völter and Josep Call
Chapter 30: Cognitive Insights From Tool Use in Nonhuman
Animals
Elisabetta Visalberghi, Gloria Sabbatini, Alex H. Taylor, and Gavin
R. Hunt
Chapter 31: The Comparative Psychology of Metacognition
Alexandria C. Zakrzewski, Jennifer M. Johnson, and J. David
Smith
Chapter 32: Mind Reading in Animals?
Juliane Kaminski
Chapter 33: Reflecting on Mirror Self-Recognition: A Comparative
View
Diana Reiss and Rachel Morrison
Chapter 34: Empathy Through the Ages: A Comparative Perspective on
Rodent Models of Shared Emotion
Jules B. Panksepp and Jaak Panksepp
Chapter 35: Animal Welfare Science
Michael Mendl, Georgia J. Mason, and Elizabeth S. Paul
Index
Josep Call, PhD, is a professor of the evolutionary origins
of mind in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the
University of St. Andrews in St. Andrews, Scotland, and director
and cofounder of the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center in the
Leipzig Zoo in Leipzig, Germany. He received his BA in 1990 from
the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, and his
MA in 1995 and PhD in 1997 from Emory University in Atlanta,
Georgia. From 1997 to 1999, he was a lecturer at the School of
Biological Sciences at the University of Liverpool in Liverpool,
England. In 1999, he worked as a senior scientist at the Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. A
comparative psychologist specializing in primate cognition and
cognitive evolution, Dr. Call's research focuses on elucidating the
cognitive processes underlying technical and social problem solving
in animals, with the ultimate goal of reconstructing the evolution
of human and nonhuman cognition. He has published four books and
more than 300 articles and book chapters on the behavior and
cognition of great apes and other animals. He has been awarded the
Irvine Memorial Medal and the Sheth Distinguished International
Alumni Award, and has been elected a fellow of APA Division 6
(Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology),
the Cognitive Science Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Comparative Psychology
and serves on the editorial board of several other academic
journals.
The real potential from collaborative and cross-disciplinary
thinking that comparative psychology can engender is only just
beginning to be realized. This book will do much to push it forward
to the benefit of both the human and nonhuman species. I thoroughly
recommend this book to all, for university libraries, or your own.
You will not regret it.
*PsycCRITIQUES*
All articles are extensively researched, detailed, well written,
and thoroughly documented…. These two volumes will serve as
excellent additions to general and comparative psychology
collections.
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