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Animal Spatial Cognition:

 Comparative, Neural & Computational Approaches

Edited and Published by

In cooperation with Comparative Cognition Press
(July, 2006)

Table of Contents

 

Introduction    Michael F. Brown & Robert G. Cook Villanova University & Tufts University

Ecology and Life History of Seed Caching Corvids Russ Balda & Al Kamil     Northern Arizona University & University of Nebraska

An Adaptationist's View of Comparative Spatial Cognition    Sue Healy    University of Edinburgh

Abstracting Spatial Relations Among Goal Locations Michael F. Brown Villanova University

Geometry, Features, and Orientation in Vertebrate Animals: A Pictorial Review Ken Cheng & Nora Newcombe Macquarie University & Temple University

Updating Human Spatial Memory Holly A. Taylor & David N. Rapp     Tufts University & Northwestern University

Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Homing and Migration in Birds     Verner Bingman, Tammy Jechura, & Meghan C. Kahn     Bowling Green State University

Directing Neural Representations of Space      Sheri Mizumori & David Smith      University of Washington

True Navigation: Sensory Bases of Gradient Maps   John Phillips, Klaus Schmidt-Koenig, & Rachel Muheim     Virginia Tech, Duke University, & Virginia Tech

Functional Considerations in Animal Navigation: How Do You Use What You Know?     Robert Biegler      Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Exploration and Navigation Using Hierarchical Cognitive Maps Nestor Schmajuk & Horatiu Voicu      Duke University

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