Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds

by Louise Barrett

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When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories, ecological niches, and physical attributes. How do these differences influence animal thinking and behavior? Removing our human-centered spectacles, Louise Barrett investigates the mind and brain and offers an alternative approach for understanding animal and human cognition. Drawing on examples from animal behavior, comparative psychology, robotics, artificial life, developmental...Read more
  • ISBN10 1400838347
  • ISBN13 9781400838349
  • Publish Date 4 April 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Princeton University Press
  • Edition Student ed.
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 288
  • Language English