The effects of hippocampal lesions on the processing and retention of visual and spatial
information in birds and mammals is reviewed. Both birds and mammals with damage to the …

An animal's behavior is affected by its cognitive abilities, which are, in turn, a consequence
of the environment in which an animal has evolved and developed. Although behavioral …

Recent decades have seen a number of influential attacks on the comparative psychology of
learning and intelligence. Two specific charges have been that the use of distantly related …

Four experiments investigated the content of the memory used by rats in mediating retention
intervals interpolated during performance in a 12-arm radial maze. The delay occurred …

First published in 1984. With this volume we initiate a series of books in comparative
cognition and neuroscience. The presentations at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Conference …

Human cognitive capacities have so evolved that man is able to solve an extensive range of
problems having very different properties. Comparative psychologists have endeavoured to …

Darwin argued that between-species differences in intelligence were differences of degree,
not of kind. The contemporary ecological approach to animal cognition argues that animals …

Behavioral tasks must be evaluated in terms of the cognitive functions they require in order
to be performed. All of the tasks described in this chapter can be used with each of four …

The spatial memory abilities of free-ranging rufous hummingbirds were tested in an “open-
field” analogue of a radial maze. Eight artificial “flowers” filled with sucrose solution and …

Originally published in 1989, this title presents a view of adaptive behaviour which
integrates both evolutionary and psychological perspectives on learning. The study of …