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	Author	Epstein, R.
	Title	Animal cognition as the praxist views it			Type	Journal Article
	Year	1985	Publication	Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews	Abbreviated Journal	Neurosci Biobehav Rev
	Volume	9	Issue	4	Pages	623-630
	Keywords	Animals; Behavior, Animal; Behavioral Sciences/trends; Behaviorism; *Cognition; Columbidae; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; Humans; Models, Psychological; Problem Solving; Psychological Theory; Psychology/history/trends
	Abstract	The distinction between psychology and praxics provides a clear answer to the question of animal cognition. As Griffin and others have noted, the kinds of behavioral phenomena that lead psychologists to speak of cognition in humans are also observed in nonhuman animals, and therefore those who are convinced of the legitimacy of psychology should not hesitate to speak of and to attempt to study animal cognition. The behavior of organisms is also a legitimate subject matter, and praxics, the study of behavior, has led to significant advances in our understanding of the kinds of behaviors that lead psychologists to speak of cognition. Praxics is a biological science; the attempt by students of behavior to appropriate psychology has been misguided. Generativity theory is an example of a formal theory of behavior that has proved useful both in the engineering of intelligent performances in nonhuman animals and in the prediction of intelligent performances in humans.
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	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	ISSN	0149-7634	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:3909017			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2809
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	Author	Zucca, P.; Milos, N.; Vallortigara, G.
	Title	Piagetian object permanence and its development in Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius)			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2007	Publication	Animal Cognition	Abbreviated Journal	Anim. Cogn.
	Volume	10	Issue	2	Pages	243-258
	Keywords	Animals; Behavior, Animal; Birds/physiology; Cognition; Cues
	Abstract	Object permanence in Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) was investigated using a complete version of the Uzgiris and Hunt scale 1. Nine hand-raised jays were studied, divided into two groups according to their different developmental stages (experiment 1, older jays: 2-3 months old, n = 4; experiment 2, younger jays: 15 days old, n = 5). In the first experiment, we investigated whether older jays could achieve piagetian stage 6 of object permanence. Tasks were administered in a fixed sequence (1-15) according to the protocols used in other avian species. The aim of the second experiment was to check whether testing very young jays before their development of “neophobia” could influence the achievement times of piagetian stages. Furthermore, in this experiment tasks were administered randomly to investigate whether the jays' achievement of stage 6 follows a fixed sequence related to the development of specific cognitive abilities. All jays tested in experiments 1 and 2 fully achieved piagetian stage 6 and no “A not B” errors were observed. Performance on visible displacement tasks was better than performance on invisible ones. The results of experiment 2 show that “neophobia” affected the response of jays in terms of achievement times; the older jays in experiment 1 took longer to pass all the tasks when compared with the younger, less neophobic, jays in experiment 2. With regard to the achieving order, jays followed a fixed sequence of acquisition in experiment 2, even if tasks were administered randomly, with the exception of one subject. The results of these experiments support the idea that piagetian stages of cognitive development exist in avian species and that they progress through relatively fixed sequences.
	Address	Department of Psychology, Laboratory of Animal Cognition and Comparative Neuroscience, Via S. Anastasio 12, 34100, Trieste, Italy. zucca@units.it
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	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1435-9448	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:17242935			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2423
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	Author	Williams, N.
	Title	Evolutionary psychologists look for roots of cognition			Type
	Year	1997	Publication	Science (New York, N.Y.)	Abbreviated Journal	Science
	Volume	275	Issue	5296	Pages	29-30
	Keywords	Animals; Behavior, Animal; Birds; Cognition; Evolution; Female; Humans; Macaca mulatta/psychology; Male; Memory; Reward; Social Sciences
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	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	ISSN	0036-8075	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:8999531			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2845
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	Author	Marchal, P.; Anderson, J.R.
	Title	Mirror-image responses in capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus): social responses and use of reflected environmental information			Type	Journal Article
	Year	1993	Publication	Folia Primatologica; International Journal of Primatology	Abbreviated Journal	Folia Primatol (Basel)
	Volume	61	Issue	3	Pages	165-173
	Keywords	Animals; Behavior, Animal; Cebus/psychology; Cognition; Female; Male; Self Concept; Sex Factors; Social Behavior
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	Address	Laboratoire de Psychophysiologie (CNRS URA 1295), Universite Louis-Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
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	ISSN	0015-5713	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:8206423			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	4180
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	Author	Bering, J.M.
	Title	A critical review of the “enculturation hypothesis”: the effects of human rearing on great ape social cognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2004	Publication	Animal Cognition	Abbreviated Journal	Anim. Cogn.
	Volume	7	Issue	4	Pages	201-212
	Keywords	Animals; Cognition; Culture; Hominidae/psychology; Humans; Imitative Behavior; Imprinting (Psychology); Intention; Macaca; Psychological Theory; Social Behavior; Social Environment; Species Specificity
	Abstract	Numerous investigators have argued that early ontogenetic immersion in sociocultural environments facilitates cognitive developmental change in human-reared great apes more characteristic of Homo sapiens than of their own species. Such revamping of core, species-typical psychological systems might be manifest, according to this argument, in the emergence of mental representational competencies, a set of social cognitive skills theoretically consigned to humans alone. Human-reared great apes' capacity to engage in “true imitation,” in which both the means and ends of demonstrated actions are reproduced with fairly high rates of fidelity, and laboratory great apes' failure to do so, has frequently been interpreted as reflecting an emergent understanding of intentionality in the former. Although this epigenetic model of the effects of enculturation on social cognitive systems may be well-founded and theoretically justified in the biological literature, alternative models stressing behavioral as opposed to representational change have been largely overlooked. Here I review some of the controversy surrounding enculturation in great apes, and present an alternative nonmentalistic version of the enculturation hypothesis that can also account for enhanced imitative performance on object-oriented problem-solving tasks in human-reared animals.
	Address	Department of Psychology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. jbering@uark.edu
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	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	ISSN	1435-9448	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:15004739			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2543
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	Author	Brannon, E.M.; Cantlon, J.F.; Terrace, H.S.
	Title	The role of reference points in ordinal numerical comparisons by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2006	Publication	Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes	Abbreviated Journal	J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process
	Volume	32	Issue	2	Pages	120-134
	Keywords	Animals; Cognition; Discrimination (Psychology); Generalization (Psychology); Macaca mulatta/psychology; Male; Mathematics; *Pattern Recognition, Visual
	Abstract	Two experiments examined ordinal numerical knowledge in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Experiment 1 replicated the finding (E. M. Brannon & H. S. Terrace, 2000) that monkeys trained to respond in descending numerical order (4-->3-->2-->1) did not generalize the descending rule to the novel values 5-9 in contrast to monkeys trained to respond in ascending order. Experiment 2 examined whether the failure to generalize a descending rule was due to the direction of the training sequence or to the specific values used in the training sequence. Results implicated 3 factors that characterize a monkey's numerical comparison process: Weber's law, knowledge of ordinal direction, and a comparison of each value in a test pair with the reference point established by the first value of the training sequence.
	Address	Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. brannon@duke.edu
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	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	ISSN	0097-7403	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:16634655			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2761
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	Author	Sousa, C.; Okamoto, S.; Matsuzawa, T.
	Title	Behavioural development in a matching-to-sample task and token use by an infant chimpanzee reared by his mother			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2003	Publication	Animal Cognition	Abbreviated Journal	Anim. Cogn.
	Volume	6	Issue	4	Pages	259-267
	Keywords	Animals; Cognition; Discrimination Learning; Female; Imitative Behavior; Male; Mothers/psychology; Pan troglodytes/growth & development/psychology; *Transfer (Psychology)
	Abstract	We investigated the behavioural and cognitive development of a captive male infant chimpanzee, Ayumu, raised by his mother, Ai. Here we report Ayumu's achievements up to the age of 2 years and 3 months, in the context of complex computer-controlled tasks. From soon after birth, Ayumu had been present during an experiment performed by his mother. The task consisted of two phases, a matching-to-sample task in which she received token rewards, and the insertion of these tokens into a vending machine to obtain food rewards. Ayumu himself received no reward or encouragement from humans for any of the actions he exhibited during the experiment. At the age of 9 months and 3 weeks, Ayumu performed his first matching-to-sample trial. At around 1 year and 3 months, he began to perform them consistently. Also during this period, he frequently stole food rewards from his mother. At 2 years and 3 months, Ayumu succeeded for the first time in inserting a token into the vending machine. Once he had succeeded in using a token, he performed both phases of the task in sequence 20 times consecutively. The infant's behaviour was not shaped by food rewards but by a strong motivation to copy his mother's behaviour. Our observations of Ayumu thus mirror the learning processes shown by wild chimpanzees.
	Address	Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama Aichi 484-8506, Japan. csousa@fcsh.unl.pt
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	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	ISSN	1435-9448	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:13680400			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2556
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	Author	Poti, P.
	Title	Chimpanzees' constructional praxis (Pan paniscus, P. troglodytes)			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2005	Publication	Primates	Abbreviated Journal	Primates
	Volume	46	Issue	2	Pages	103-113
	Keywords	Animals; Cognition; Discrimination Learning; Female; Male; Pan troglodytes/physiology; Psychomotor Performance/physiology; Spatial Behavior/*physiology; Species Specificity
	Abstract	This study investigated chimpanzees' spontaneous spatial constructions with objects and especially their ability to repeat inter-object spatial relations, which is basic to understanding spatial relations at a higher level than perception or recognition. Subjects were six chimpanzees-four chimpanzees and two bonobos-aged 6-21 years, all raised in a human environment from an early age. Only minor species differences, but considerable individual differences were found. The effect of different object samples was assessed through a comparison with a previous study. A common overall chimpanzee pattern was also found. Chimpanzees repeated different types of inter-object spatial relations such as insertion (I), or vertical (V), or next-to (H) relations. However chimpanzees repeated I or V relations with more advanced procedures than when repeating H relations. Moreover, chimpanzees never repeated combined HV relations. Compared with children, chimpanzees showed a specific difficulty in repeating H relations. Repeating H relations is crucial for representing and understanding multiple reciprocal spatial relations between detached elements and for coordinating independent positions in space. Therefore, the chimpanzees' difficulty indicates a fundamental difference in constructive space in comparison to humans. The findings are discussed in relation to issues of spatial cognition and tool use.
	Address	Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR, via U. Aldrovandi 16b, 00197, Rome, Italy. p.poti@istc.cnr.it
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	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0032-8332	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:15378424			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2811
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	Author	Funk, M.S.
	Title	Problem solving skills in young yellow-crowned parakeets (Cyanoramphus auriceps)			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2002	Publication	Animal Cognition	Abbreviated Journal	Anim. Cogn.
	Volume	5	Issue	3	Pages	167-176
	Keywords	Animals; Cognition; Discrimination Learning; Female; Motor Skills; Parakeets; Play and Playthings; Problem Solving; Social Behavior
	Abstract	Despite the long divergent evolutionary history of birds and mammals, early avian and primate cognitive development have many convergent features. Some of these features were investigated with a series of tasks designed to assess human infant development. The tasks were presented to young parakeets to assess their means-end problem solving abilities. Examples of these early skills are: attaining and playing with objects, retrieving rewards through use of a stick or rake, or by pulling in rewards on supports or on the ends of strings. Twelve such tasks were presented to 11 young yellow-crowned parakeets ( Cyanoramphus auriceps) to investigate their natural abilities; there was no attempt to train them to do those tasks that they did not spontaneously perform. Six of the birds were parent-raised and five were hand-raised. The birds completed 9 of the 12 tasks, demonstrating all the Piagetian sensorimotor circular reactions, but they failed to hand-watch (“claw-watch”), to stack objects, or to fill a container. Their ordinality on the tasks differed from that of human infants in that locomotion to obtain objects occurred earlier in the avian sequence of development and the mid-level tasks were performed by the two groups of avian subjects in a mixed order perhaps indicating that these abilities may not emerge in any particular order for these birds as they supposedly do for human infants. The hand-raised group needed fewer sessions to complete these means-end tasks.
	Address	Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. mdfunk@northwestern.edu
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	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	ISSN	1435-9448	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:12357289			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2596
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	Author	Subiaul, F.; Cantlon, J.F.; Holloway, R.L.; Terrace, H.S.
	Title	Cognitive imitation in rhesus macaques			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2004	Publication	Science (New York, N.Y.)	Abbreviated Journal	Science
	Volume	305	Issue	5682	Pages	407-410
	Keywords	Animals; Cognition; Imitative Behavior; Learning; Macaca mulatta/physiology/psychology; Male
	Abstract	Experiments on imitation typically evaluate a student's ability to copy some feature of an expert's motor behavior. Here, we describe a type of observational learning in which a student copies a cognitive rule rather than a specific motor action. Two rhesus macaques were trained to respond, in a prescribed order, to different sets of photographs that were displayed on a touch-sensitive monitor. Because the position of the photographs varied randomly from trial to trial, sequences could not be learned by motor imitation. Both monkeys learned new sequences more rapidly after observing an expert execute those sequences than when they had to learn new sequences entirely by trial and error.
	Address	Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. subiaul@aol.com
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1095-9203	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:15256673			Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	2839
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