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Author(s): Michael Platt, Asif Ghazanfar
ISBN(s): 9780195326598, 0195326598
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 10.99 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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Author: Michael Platt, Asif Ghazanfar

Why do people find monkeys and apes so compelling to watch? One clear answer is that they seem so similar to us-a window into our own minds and how we have evolved over millennia. As Charles Darwin wrote in his Notebook M, “He who understands baboon would do more toward metaphysics than Locke.” Darwin recognized that behavior and cognition, and the neural architecture that support them, evolved to solve specific social and ecological problems. Defining these problems for neurobiological study, and conveying neurobiological results to ethologists and psychologists, is fundamental to an evolutionary understanding of brain and behavior.

The ‘neuroethological’ approach envisioned by Darwin, pioneered by the European ethologists, and refined by modern neurobiologists and biologists, has provided rich insights into the minds of several nonhuman animals such as bats, electric fish, and songbirds. In stark contrast, studies of the function and structure of primate brains too often focus on more general cognitive processes and neural measures (e.g., brain size), while neglecting species-typical behaviors. A more promising, and biologically plausible, approach to understanding our place in nature would be to move beyond such coarse approaches and investigate the anatomy and physiology of particular brain systems as they relate to species-typical behaviors. That is, we must develop a neuroethology of primate behavior and cognition.

The goal of this book is to do just that. It collects, for the first time in a single book, information on primate behavior and cognition, neurobiology, and the emerging discipline of neuroethology. Here leading scientists in several fields review work ranging from primate foraging behavior to the neurophysiology of motor control, from vocal communication to the functions of the auditory cortex. The resulting synthesis of cognitive, ethological and neurobiological approaches to primate behavior yields a richer understanding of our primate cousins that also sheds light on the evolutionary development of human behavior and cognition.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction
Michael L. Platt and Asif A. Ghazanfar
2. Primate Classification and Diversity
Matt Cartmill
3. Primate Locomotor Evolution: Biomechanical Studies of Primate Locomotion and Their Implications for Understanding Primate Neuroethology
Daniel Schmitt
4. Foraging Cognition in Nonhuman Primates
Klaus Zuberbu¨hler and Karline Janmaat
5. Primate Vocal Communication
Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney
6. Rational Decision Making in Primates: The Bounded and the Ecological
Jeffrey R. Stevens
7. Primate Social Cognition: Thirty Years After Premack and Woodruff
Alexandra G. Rosati, Laurie R. Santos and Brian Hare
8. Behavioral Signatures of Numerical Cognition
Elizabeth M. Brannon, Kerry E. Jordan and Sarah M. Jones
9. The Foundations of Transdisciplinary Behavioral Science
Herbert Gintis
10. Sensory and Motor Systems in Primates
Jon H. Kaas
11. Vision: A Neuroethological Perspective
Benjamin Y. Hayden
12. Circuits of Visual Attention
Tirin Moore, Robert J. Schafer and Behrad Noudoost
13. Vocalizations as Auditory Objects: Behavior and Neurophysiology
Cory T. Miller and Yale E. Cohen
14. Encoding and Beyond in the Motor Cortex
Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos, Maryam Saleh, and Julian A. Mattiello
15. Looking at Sounds: Neural Mechanisms in the Primate Brain
Jennifer M. Groh and Dinesh K. Pai
16. Circuits of Emotion in the Primate Brain
Katalin M. Gothard and Kari L. Hoffman
17. Neurophysiological Correlates of Reward Learning
Wolfram Schultz
18. Associative Memory in the Medial Temporal Lobe
Yuji Naya and Wendy A. Suzuki
19. Neurobiology of Social Behavior
Dario Maestripieri
20. Neural Bases of Numerical Cognition
Andreas Nieder
21. Executive Control Circuits
Jonathan D. Wallis
22. Reinventing Primate Neuroscience for the Twenty-First Century
Todd M. Preuss
23. Ethologically Relevant Movements Mapped on the Motor Cortex
Michael S. A. Graziano
24. Object Recognition: Physiological and Computational Insights
Doris Y. Tsao, Charles F. Cadieu, and Margaret S. Livingstone
25. The Primate Frontal and Temporal Lobes and Their Role in Multisensory Vocal Communication
Lizabeth M. Romanski and Asif A. Ghazanfar
26. Neuroethology of Attention in Primates
Stephen V. Shepherd and Michael L. Platt
27. Neuroethology of Decision Making
Daeyeol Lee
28. Out of Our Minds: The Neuroethology of Primate Strategic Behavior
Louise Barrett and Drew Rendall
29. The Comparative Neuropsychology of Tool Use in Primates with Specific Reference to Chimpanzees and Capuchin Monkeys
William D. Hopkins
30. Evolution of an Intellectual Mind in the Primate Brain
Atsushi Iriki, Yumiko Yamazaki, and Osamu Sakura

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