Includes bibliographical references (p. 557-649) and indexes.

1. Cognition, Evolution, and the Study of Behavior
1.1. Cognition and Consciousness
1.2. Kinds of Explanation of Behavior
1.3. Approaches to Comparative Cognition
1.4. Testing Adaptive/Evolutionary Explanations
1.5. Evolution and Cognition
1.6. Summary
2. Perception and Attention
2.1. Specialized Sensory Systems
2.2. How Can We Find Out What Animals Perceive?
2.3. Some Psychophysical Principles
2.4. Signal Detection Theory
2.5. Perception and Evolution
2.6. Perceiving Objects
2.7. Attention
2.8. Summary
3. Learning
3.1. General Processes and Adaptive Specializations
3.2. A Framework for Thinking About Learning
3.3. When Will Learning Evolve?
3.4. Pavlovian Conditioning
3.5. Varieties of Associative Learning
3.6. Summary
4. Simple Recognition Learning
4.1. Habituation
4.2. Perceptual Learning
4.3. Imprinting
4.4. Recognition and Altruism
4.5. Summary and Conclusions
5. Discrimination and Classification
5.1. Three Examples
5.2. Untrained Responses to Natural Stimuli
5.3. Classifying Complex Natural Stimuli
5.4. Discrimination Learning
5.5. Category Discrimination and Concepts
5.6. Summary and Conclusions
6. Memory
6.1. The Issues
6.2. Methods for Studying Memory in Animals
6.3. Conditions for Memory
6.4. Species Differences in Memory?
6.5. Contents of Memory
6.6. Summary and Conclusions
7. Getting Around
7.1. Mechanisms for Spatial Orientation
7.2. How is Spatial Information Integrated? Modularity and Averaging
7.3. Do Animals Have Cognitive Maps?
7.4. Acquiring Spatial Knowledge: The Conditions for Learning
7.5. Conclusions
8. Timing and Counting
8.1. Circadian Rhythms
8.2. Characteristics of Interval Timing
8.3. Theories of Interval Timing
8.4. Do Animals Count?
8.5. Summary
9. Foraging and Measuring Rate
9.1. Optimality Modeling
9.2. How Individuals Choose Patches
9.3. Choosing Patches in a Group
9.4. Leaving Depleting Patches
9.5. Choosing Prey
9.6. Assessing Risk
9.7. Summary
10. Learning From Others
10.1. The Behavioral Ecology of Social Learning
10.2. Mechanisms for Social Learning
10.3. Vocal Imitation: Bird Song Learning
10.4. Tool Use and Teaching
10.5. Putting It All Together
11. Cognitive Ethology and the Evolution of Mind
11.1. Cognitive Ethology
11.2. Intentions, Intentionality, and the Intentional Stance
11.3. Monkey in the Mirror
11.4. Theory of Mind
11.5. The Social Theory of Intellect and Evolutionary Psychology
11.6. Whither Cognitive Ethology?
12. Communication and Language
12.1. Approaches to Studying Communication
12.2. Some Natural Communication Systems
12.3. Trying to Teach Human Language to Other Species
12.4. Overview
13. Summing Up and Looking Ahead
13.1. Modularity and the Animal Mind
13.2. How Does Cognition Evolve?
13.3. Anthropomorphism and Representational Explanations
13.4. Synthesizing the Ecological and Anthropocentric Programs
References
Credits
Index of Subjects
Index of Names