Primate Neuroethology
Published on 13. June 2013
Book
Hardback
704 pages
978-0-19-933890-0 (ISBN)
Description
Why do people find monkeys and apes so compelling to watch? One clear answer is that they seem so similar to us--a window into our own minds and how we have evolved over millennia. As Charles Darwin wrote in his Notebook, "He who understands baboon would do more toward metaphysics than Locke." Darwin recognized that behavior and cognition, and the neural architecture that support them, evolved to solve specific social and ecological problems. Defining these problems for neurobiological study, and conveying neurobiological results to ethologists and psychologists, is fundamental to an evolutionary understanding of brain and behavior.
The goal of this book is to do just that. It collects, for the first time in a single book, information on primate behavior and cognition, neurobiology, and the emerging discipline of neuroethology. Here leading scientists in several fields review work ranging from primate foraging behavior to the neurophysiology of motor control, from vocal communication to the functions of the auditory cortex. The resulting synthesis of cognitive, ethological, and neurobiological approaches to primate behavior yields a richer understanding of our primate cousins that also sheds light on the evolutionary development of human behavior and cognition.
The goal of this book is to do just that. It collects, for the first time in a single book, information on primate behavior and cognition, neurobiology, and the emerging discipline of neuroethology. Here leading scientists in several fields review work ranging from primate foraging behavior to the neurophysiology of motor control, from vocal communication to the functions of the auditory cortex. The resulting synthesis of cognitive, ethological, and neurobiological approaches to primate behavior yields a richer understanding of our primate cousins that also sheds light on the evolutionary development of human behavior and cognition.
Reviews / Votes
"Platt and Ghazanfar have assembled what will undoubtedly become the standard text in primate neuroethology. This is a volume that should provides fresh insight for primatologists, neuroscientists and cognitive scientists as it reveals that rich interdisciplinary threads that bind these areas of scholarship together. This is a must-have book for anyone interested in primate cognition."--Paul Glimcher, Professor of Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology, New York University
"Primate Neuroethology is magnificent! Michael Platt and Asif Ghazanfar have brought together the foremost experts in the fields of primate behaviour, cognition and neurobiology to create a comprehensive and accessible work in the emerging field of primate neuroethology. Weaving together the contributions of a remarkable group of scientists, they have bridged the gap between ethology and neurobiology in this authoritative-yet-provocative text."
--Alan Kingstone, Distinguished University Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience, University of British Columbia
"Overall, this is a comprehensive, diverse, well illustrated, and highly informative collection...without question the large amount of material and the successful approach to
presenting the case for primate neuroethology make this volume the kind of resource one
will return to repeatedly. So keep it centrally located on your bookshelf..." --PsycCRITIQUES
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 42 mm
Weight
1500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-933890-0 (9780199338900)
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Michael L. Platt | Asif A. Ghazanfar
Primate Neuroethology
Book
08/2012
Oxford University Press Inc
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Persons
Michael L. Platt, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
Asif A. Ghazanfar, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Neuroscience Institute and Departments of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University.
Asif A. Ghazanfar, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Neuroscience Institute and Departments of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University.
Editor
Associate Professor and DirectorAssociate Professor and Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Departments of Neurobiology and Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University, Durham, NC
Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor, Neuroscience Institute and Departments of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Content
1. Introduction ; Michael L. Platt and Asif A. Ghazanfar ; 2. Primate Classification and Diversity ; Matt Cartmill ; 3. Primate Locomotor Evolution: Biomechanical Studies of Primate Locomotion and Their Implications for Understanding Primate Neuroethology ; Daniel Schmitt ; 4. Foraging Cognition in Nonhuman Primates ; Klaus Zuberbuhler and Karline Janmaat ; 5. Primate Vocal Communication ; Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney ; 6. Rational Decision Making in Primates: The Bounded and the Ecological ; Jeffrey R. Stevens ; 7. Primate Social Cognition: Thirty Years After Premack and Woodruff ; Alexandra G. Rosati, Laurie R. Santos and Brian Hare ; 8. Behavioral Signatures of Numerical Cognition ; Elizabeth M. Brannon, Kerry E. Jordan and Sarah M. Jones ; 9. The Foundations of Transdisciplinary Behavioral Science ; Herbert Gintis ; 10. Sensory and Motor Systems in Primates ; Jon H. Kaas ; 11. Vision: A Neuroethological Perspective ; Benjamin Y. Hayden ; 12. Circuits of Visual Attention ; Tirin Moore, Robert J. Schafer and Behrad Noudoost ; 13. Vocalizations as Auditory Objects: Behavior and Neurophysiology ; Cory T. Miller and Yale E. Cohen ; 14. Encoding and Beyond in the Motor Cortex ; Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos, Maryam Saleh, and Julian A. Mattiello ; 15. Looking at Sounds: Neural Mechanisms in the Primate Brain ; Jennifer M. Groh and Dinesh K. Pai ; 16. Circuits of Emotion in the Primate Brain ; Katalin M. Gothard and Kari L. Hoffman ; 17. Neurophysiological Correlates of Reward Learning ; Wolfram Schultz ; 18. Associative Memory in the Medial Temporal Lobe ; Yuji Naya and Wendy A. Suzuki ; 19. Neurobiology of Social Behavior ; Dario Maestripieri ; 20. Neural Bases of Numerical Cognition ; Andreas Nieder ; 21. Executive Control Circuits ; Jonathan D. Wallis ; 22. Reinventing Primate Neuroscience for the Twenty-First Century ; Todd M. Preuss ; 23. Ethologically Relevant Movements Mapped on the Motor Cortex ; Michael S. A. Graziano ; 24. Object Recognition: Physiological and Computational Insights ; Doris Y. Tsao, Charles F. Cadieu, and Margaret S. Livingstone ; 25. The Primate Frontal and Temporal Lobes and Their Role in Multisensory Vocal Communication ; Lizabeth M. Romanski and Asif A. Ghazanfar ; 26. Neuroethology of Attention in Primates ; Stephen V. Shepherd and Michael L. Platt ; 27. Neuroethology of Decision Making ; Daeyeol Lee ; 28. Out of Our Minds: The Neuroethology of Primate Strategic Behavior ; Louise Barrett and Drew Rendall ; 29. The Comparative Neuropsychology of Tool Use in Primates with Specific Reference to Chimpanzees and Capuchin Monkeys ; William D. Hopkins ; 30. Evolution of an Intellectual Mind in the Primate Brain ; Atsushi Iriki, Yumiko Yamazaki, and Osamu Sakura