Author: Roitblat, Herbert L. & Meyer, Jean-Arcady; editors:
Title: Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 26x18cm, x,529 pp. Textual charts & tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contains 20 papers. Includes: J.-A. Meyer "The Animat Approach to Cognitive Science"; M.A. Boden "Creative Creatures"; B.W. Mel "Animal Behavior in Four Components"; C. Allen "Intentionality: Natural & Artificial"; D.C. Dennett "Do Animals Have Beliefs"; M. Bekoff "Cognitive Ethology & the Explanation of Nonhuman Animal Behavior"; W.T. Bourbon " Perceptual Control Theory"; R.K.R. Thompson "Natural & Relational Concepts in Animals"; J.J. Neiworth "The Integration of Content with Context: Spatiotemporal Encoding & Episodic Memories in People & Animals"; C. Thinus-Blanc "Spatial Information Processing in Animals"; P.W. Cheng " K.J.Holyoak "Complex Adaptive Systems as Intuitive Statiscans: Causality, Contingency & Prediction"; J. Delacour "A Model of the Brain & the Memory System"; G. Butterworth "Factors in Visual Attention Eliciting Manual Pointing in Human Infancy"; C.S. Evans & P. Marler "Language & Animal Communication: Parallels & Contrasts"; M.G. Dyer "Toward the Acquisition of Language & the Evolution of Communciation: A Synthetic Approach"; D. McFarland "Opportunity versus Goals in Robots, Animals & People"; F. Toates "Animal Motivation & Cogition"; J.R.P. Halperin "Cognition & Emotion in Animals & Machines"; N.H. Frijdda "Emotions in Robots".

Keywords: Comparative Psychology, Human Cognition, Cognitive Science, Animal Behavior, Behaviour, Ethology, Information, Processing, Neuroscience