Evolution of Primate Social Cognition

This interdisciplinary volume brings together expert researchers coming from primatology, anthropology, ethology, philosophy of cognitive sciences, neurophysiology, mathematics and psychology to discuss both the foundations of non-human primate and human social cognition as well as the means there c...

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Di Paolo, Laura Desirèe, editor (editor), Di Vincenzo, Fabio, editor, De Petrillo, Francesca, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer 2018.
Colección:Interdisciplinary Evolution Research,
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: Aspects of Primate Social Cognition
  • 1. What did you get? What social learning, collaboration, prosocial behaviour, and inequity aversion tell us about primate social cognition
  • 2. Affective stages, motivation, and prosocial behaviour in primates
  • 3. Understanding empathy from the coordinative movement in humans and non-human primates
  • 4. The cognitive implications of intentional communication: A multi-faceted mirror
  • 5. A comparison of socio-communicative behaviour in chimpanzees and bonobos
  • Part 2: Studying Primate Social Cognition: Theory, Observation, Experiments, and Modelling
  • 6. Primate social cognition - evidence from primate field studies
  • 7. Contribution of social network analysis and collective phenomena to understanding social complexity and cognition
  • 8. Comparative economics: Using experimental economics paradigms to understand primate social decision-making
  • 9. The special case of non-human primates in animal experimentation
  • 10. Epigenetics and the evolution of human cognition
  • 11. Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: Cognitively different kinds of human?
  • Part 3: Cultural Artifacts and Transmission in Primates
  • 12. Recognition culture in primate tool use
  • 13. Culture and selective social learning in wild and captive primates
  • 14. The zone of latent solutions concept and its relationship to the classics
  • 15. Minimal cognitive preconditions on the ratchet
  • 18. Emulation, (over)imitation and social creation of cultural information
  • 19. The Acquisition of Biface Knapping Skill in the Acheulean
  • 20. Visuospatial integration: Palaeoanthropological and archaeological perspectives.