Barry Schwartz

Steven Jay Robbins

Edward A. Wasserman

Now in its Fifth Edition, Psychology of Learning and Behavior is one of the most highly regarded texts in its field.

Psychology of Learning and Behavior

Thomas R. Zentall

Edward A.. Wasserman

Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology Edward A Wasserman

DiSilvestro Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology Thomas R Zentall

This text focuses on the scientific study of animal intelligence. It celebrates comparative cognition's first quarter century, with a collection of chapters, covering the realm of the scientific study of animal intelligence.

Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence

Comparative Cognition

Toru Shimizu

Olga F. Lazareva

The visual world of animals is highly diverse and often very different from that of humans. This book provides an extensive review of the latest behavioral and neurobiological research on animal vision, detailing fascinating species similarities and differences in visual processing.

Comparative Behavior, Biology, and Evolution of Vision

How Animals See the World

The eureka moment is a myth. It is an altogether naïve and fanciful account of human progress. Innovations emerge from a much less mysterious combination of historical, circumstantial, and accidental influences. This book explores the origin and evolution of several important behavioral innovations including the high five, the Heimlich maneuver, the butterfly stroke, the moonwalk, and the Iowa caucus. Such creations' striking suitability to the situation and the moment appear ingeniously designed with foresight. However, more often than not, they actually arise 'as if by design.' Based on investigations into the histories of a wide range of innovations, Edward A. Wasserman reveals the nature of behavioral creativity. What surfaces is a fascinating web of causation involving three main factors: context, consequence, and coincidence. Focusing on the process rather than the product of innovation elevates behavior to the very center of the creative human endeavor.

How Creative Behaviors Really Evolve

As If By Design

Forget insight and genius! The many creative things we make and do generally arise from sheer chance and trial-and-error learning.

Isidore Gormezano

This volume presents the views and findings of behaviorally and biologically oriented investigators invited to participate in The University of Iowa's biennial learning and memory symposium. While chapters vary in their scope and depth of coverage, they are all amply referenced so that researchers, teachers, and students can obtain background information appropriate to their respective needs.

The Behavioral and Biological Substrates

Learning and Memory

In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition contains sections on perception and illusion, attention and search, memory processes, spatial cognition, conceptualization and categorization, problem solving and behavioral flexibility, and social cognition processes including findings in primate tool usage, pattern learning, and counting. The authors have incorporated findings and theoretical approaches that reflect the current state of the field. This comprehensive volume will be a must-read for students and scientists who want to know about the state of the art of the modern science of comparative cognition.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition

Rev. ed. of: Comparative cognition. 2006.

Edward A. Wasserman

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