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Cognitive ecology, the evolutionary ecology of information processing and decision making, edited by Reuven Dukas

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Cognitive ecology

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edited by Reuven Dukas

the evolutionary ecology of information processing and decision making

Cognitive Ecology lays the foundations for a field of study that integrates theory and data from evolutionary ecology and cognitive science to investigate how animal interactions with natural habitats shape cognitive systems, and how constraints imposed on nervous systems limit or bias animal behavior. Using critical literature reviews and theoretical models, the contributors provide new insights and raise novel questions about the adaptive design of specific brain capacities and about optimal behavior subject to the computational capabilities of brains

Neural representation and the evolution of signal form / Magnus Enquist and Anthony Arak -- Constraints on information processing and their effects on behavior / Reuven Dukas -- Evolutionary ecology of learning / Reuven Dukas -- The cognitive ecology of song communication and song learning in the song sparrow / Michael D. Beecher, S. Elizabeth Campbell, and J. Cully Nordby -- Cognitive ecology of navigation / Fred C. Dyer -- The ecology and neurobiology of spatial memory / David F. Sherry -- Risk-sensitive foraging: decision making in variable elements / Melissa Bateson and Alex Kacelnik -- Behavioral decisions about foraging and predator avoidance / Ronald C. Ydenberg -- Evolutionary ecology of partner choice / Lee A. Dugatkin and Andrew Sih -- Cognitive ecology: prospects / Reuven Dukas