Learning from animals?

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Röska-Hardy, Louise, 1950-, Neumann-Held, Eva M.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Psychology Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Issues and themes in comparative studies : language, cognition, and culture / Louise S. Roska-Hardy
  • Language
  • Prolegomena to a science of biolinguistics / W. Tecumseh Fitch
  • Sketch of an evolutionary grammar based on comparative biolinguistics / Wolfgang Wildgen
  • Vocal and gestural communication in non-human primates and the question of the origin of language / Adrien Meguerditchian and Jacques Vauclair
  • Cognition
  • Socio-emotional factors in the development of joint attention in human and ape infants / Kim A. Bard and David A. Leavens
  • Collective intentionality and the roots of human societal life / Hannes Rakoczy
  • Socio-cognitive abilities and cooperative breeding / Judith-Maria Burkart
  • Attentiveness toward others and social learning in domestic dogs / Zsófia Virányi, Friederike Range, and Ludwig Huber
  • From similarity to uniqueness : method and theory in comparative psychology / Ingar Brinck
  • Culture
  • Experimental approaches to the study of culture in primates / Christine A. Caldwell
  • How the chimpanzee stole culture, or lessons learned from labours in cultural primatology / William C. McGrew
  • Great apes and the human resistance to equality / Dale Jamieson
  • Apes and human dignity / Matthias Kettner
  • Postscript: Human uniqueness in a comparative perspective / Louise S. Roska-Hardy.