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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tomasello, Michael
Other Authors: Call, Josep
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Primates.
Cognition.
Behavior, Animal.
Table of Contents:
  • Historical background
  • The Ecological approach to cognition
  • Primates and their lives
  • Plan of the book
  • Pt. 1. Knowledge of the physical world
  • Space and objects
  • Cognitive mapping
  • Searching for hidden objects
  • Tracking invisible displacements
  • Other forms of spatial understanding
  • What primates know about space and objects
  • Tools and causality
  • Object manipulation
  • Tool use
  • Causal understanding
  • What primates know about tools and causality.
  • Features and categories
  • Discrimination learning
  • Natural categories
  • Relational categories
  • Classsification
  • What primates know about features and categories
  • Quantities
  • Estimating numerousness
  • Ordinality and transitivity
  • Counting, summation, and proportions
  • Conservation of quantities
  • What primates know about quantities
  • Theories of primate physical cognition
  • Summary of primate physical cognition
  • Theories of proximate mechanism
  • Theories of ultimate causation
  • Directions for future research.
  • Knowledge of the social world
  • Social knowledge and interaction
  • The Social field
  • Coalitions and alliances
  • Reciprocity and interchange
  • Cooperative problem-solving
  • What primates know about others in social interaction
  • Social strategies and communication
  • Social strategies: deception
  • Intentional communication: gestures
  • Intentional communication: vocalizations
  • Commmunication with humans
  • What primates know about others in communication
  • Social learning and culture
  • Behavioral traditions in the wild
  • Social learning of instrumental activities
  • Social learning of communicative signals and gestures.
  • Teaching
  • What primates know about others in social learning
  • Theory of mind
  • Understanding behavior and perception
  • Understanding intentions and attention
  • Understanding knowledge and beliefs
  • Understanding self
  • What primates know about others' mental states
  • Theories of primate social cognition
  • Summary of primate social cognition
  • Theories of proximate mechanism
  • Theories of ultimate causation
  • Directions for future research
  • A Theory of primate cognition
  • Nonhuman primate cognition.
  • Uniquely primate cognition
  • Issues of proximate mechanism
  • Issues of ultimate causation
  • The Structure of primate cognition
  • Human cognition
  • Human cognitive development
  • Ontogenetic processes
  • Phylogenetic processes
  • The Structure of human cognition
  • Conclusion
  • Theory
  • Research
  • The Preseration of primates.