Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Roitblat, H. L.
2. Meyer, Jean-Arcady.

Description

1. vii, 533 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

1. Presents an animal-based, largely non-symbolic approach to understanding the basic mechanisms involved in adaptive intelligence. Contributions discuss and explain concepts and techniques, providing a balance of both theoretical and empirical approaches.

Series statement

1. Complex adaptive systems

Uniform title

1. Complex adaptive systems.

Subject

1. Human information processing
2. Psychology, Comparative
3. Cognitive science
4. Cognition
5. Computer simulation
6. Digital computer simulation
7. Cognition
8. Computer Simulation
9. Models, Psychological
10. Psychology, Comparative
11. Mental Processes
12. cognition
13. simulation
14. Digital computer simulation
15. Computer simulation
16. Cognitive science
17. Human information processing
18. Cognitieve processen
19. Vergelijkende psychologie
20. Psychologie comparée
21. Animaux > Moeurs et comportements > Simulation, méthodes de
22. Sciences cognitives
23. Animaux > Intelligence
24. traitement de l'information (psychologie) > études diverses
25. psychologie cognitive > études diverses
26. sciences cognitives > études diverses

Genre/Form

1. Congress
2. proceedings (reports)
3. Conference papers and proceedings
4. Conference papers and proceedings.
5. Actes de congrès.

Contents

1. Comparative approaches to cognitive science / Herbert L. Roitblat -- The animal approach to cognitive science / Jean-Arcady Meyer -- Creative creatures / Margaret A. Boden -- Animal behavior in four components / Bartlett W. Mel -- Intentionality : natural and aritficial / Colin Allen -- Do animals have beliefs? / Daniel C. Dennett -- Cognitive ethology and the explanation of nonhuman animal behavior / Marc Bekoff -- Perceptual control theory / W. Thomas Bourbon -- Natural and relational concepts in animals / Roger K.R. Thompson -- The integration of content with context : spatiotemporal encoding and episodic memories in people and animals / Julie J. Neiworth -- Spatial information processing in animals / Catherine Thinus-Blanc -- Complex adaptive systems as intuitive statisticans : causality, contingency, and prediction / Patricia W. Cheng and Keith J. Holyoak -- A model of the brain and the memory system / J. Delacour -- Factors in visual attention eliciting manual pointing in human infancy / George Butterworth -- Language and animal communication : parallels and contrasts / Christopher S. Evans and Peter Marler -- Toward the acquisition of language and the evolution of communication : a synthetic approach / Michael G. Dyer -- Opportunity versus goals in robots, animals, and people / David McFarland -- Animal motivation and cognition / Frederick Toates -- Cognition and emotion in animals and machines / J.R.P. Halperin -- Emotions in robots / Nico H. Frijda.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.