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Dolins; Mitchell

 
9780521845052: Spatial Cognition, Spatial Perception Hardback: Mapping the Self and Space

Sinopsis

Analysing human and non-human spatial cognition, perception, and behaviour through mapping internal and external spatial knowledge, authors explore current understanding of spatial information processing from mapping subjectively perceived body movements to landmarks defining external space. Useful in wide-ranging disciplines: biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, ecology, primatology, and animal behaviour.

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Acerca de los autores

Francine L. Dolins is a Comparative Psychologist focusing on the spatial cognitive abilities of non-human and human primates in the field and laboratory, examining use of landmarks in large- and small-scale space and in simple and complex environments. Francine Dolins has related interests and publications in animal welfare, captive environmental enrichment, and conservation education, including an edited volume on societal attitudes to animals, and is currently guest editing a special issue of The American Journal of Primatology on conservation education. Her education was at the University's of Sussex and Stirling in the United Kingdom, and is currently employed at the University of Michigan.

Robert W. Mitchell has engaged in laboratory studies of cognition in primates, cetaceans, and canids, including human interactions with these animals, and is currently studying play and other social behavior in Galápagos sea lions. His graduate education was at the University of Hawai'i and Clark University, and he is currently Foundation Professor of Psychology at Eastern Kentucky University. He has edited books on various forms of animal and human cognition, including deception, pretense, self-awareness and anthropomorphism, and is on the boards of editors of the Journal of Comparative Psychology and Society and Animals.

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