Cognitive Ecology II

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Cognitive Ecology II e d i t e d b y r e u v e n d u k a s & j o h n m. r a t c l i f f e T h e U n i v e r s iT y o f C h i ...

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C o nT e nT s Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction Reuven Dukas & John M. Ratcliffe 1 Pa rT i L e a r n i n g : ULt i m at e a ...

6 Development of Spatial Memory and the Hippocampus under Nutritional Stress: Adaptive Priorities or Developmental Constraints i ...

Pa rT i v Co g n i t i o n a n d s o C i aL i t y 12 What Do Functionally Referential Alarm Calls Refer To? Marta B. Manser 229 ...

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a Ck n o w l e d g m e nT s We thank the Animal Behaviour Society for sponsoring the 2007 symposium “The Evolutionary Ecology of ...

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1 Introduction R e u v e n D u k a s & J o h n M. R at c l i f f e I have endeavoured in this chapter briefly to show that t ...

 • d u k a s a n d rat c l i f f e summarized in three books at the end of the twentieth century (Balda et al. 1998; Dukas 1998 ...

Introduction •  the key angles of neurobiology and ecology. In chapter 4, Beecher and Burt present an update on a long-term res ...

 • d u k a s a n d rat c l i f f e the ways in which an animal’s cognitive biology contribute to the patterns of mate choice in ...

Pa r t I Learning U lt i m at e a n d P r o x i m at e m e c h a n i s m s ...

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2 Learning: Mechanisms, Ecology, and Evolution r e U v e n d Uk a s 2.1. Introduction Learning in humans and other animals was c ...

 • d u k a s typically influences relevant decisions and behaviors. Examples of learning include neuronal representations of ne ...

Learning: Mechanisms, Ecology, and Evolution •  and memory can be studied at the level of individual neurons. Indeed, a few neu ...