Animal intelligence : from individual to social cognition / Zhanna Reznikova.

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Foreword : an ant´s eye view of animal intelligence / by W.C. McGrew -- Part I. Development of ideas and methods in studying animal intelligence -- Evolution of views on animal intelligence -- Dramatic adventures of behaviourism -- Intelligence under a scalpel : starts and false starts of neuroscience -- Integrative approaches and coherent movement in studying animal intelligence -- Ethological approaches for studying animal learning -- Part II. Animals are welcome to the class : learning classes -- Habituation and associative learning -- Learning classes beyond ´simple´ associative learning -- Part III. Past and future in animal life : remembering, updating and anticipation -- What is memory for an intelligent animal? -- Chicks do not suffer from schizophrenia : a brief outline of brain mechanisms for processing and storing memory -- Behavioural mechanisms of experience of time -- Part IV. Being in the right place at the right time : representation of space and objects in the animal mind -- Navigation strategies in animals -- To what degree is mapping cognitive in animals? -- ´Object permanence´ in animals -- Part V. Experimental approaches to studying essential activities of animal intelligence -- Conditional discrimination as a basic technique for studying rule learning -- Categorisation, abstraction, and concept formation : are animals logical? -- Conceptual behaviour based on relations -- Part VI. Advanced intelligence in animals : rule extraction, tool using and number related skills -- Insightful behaviour -- Tool using as a tool for experimental studies of animal intelligence -- Numerical competence in animals

Part VII. Knowledge is power but not for all : species-specific intelligence -- Is finding a common metric of intelligence possible in real animal life? -- An outline of instinctive behaviour -- Guided learning and cognitive specialisation -- Developmental studies of animal intelligence : role of innate and acquired behaviour -- Imprinting -- Part VIII. Wisdom through social learning -- Ecological and cognitive aspects of social learning -- The spread of innovation within populations -- Culture in animal societies -- Part IX. Intelligent communication -- Can animals exchange meaningful messages? -- Communication, speech and language : what falls to the share of non-humans? -- Direct dialogue with animals : language-training experiments -- A battle for the Rosetta Stone : attempts to decipher animals´ signals -- A dialogue with a black box : using ideas and methods of information theory for studying animal communication -- Part X. Social life and social intelligence in the wild -- Diversity of social systems in animals -- If one must be sacrificed, why me? Evolutionary and behavioural aspects of altruism in animals -- Intelligence in the context of the functional structure of animal communities -- What sort of intelligence is required to navigate social landscapes? -- Theory of mind.