Animals I Have Known

Therapists I have known and (mostly) loved.

This manuscript embeds the author's firsthand experiences with pediatric occupational therapy with her expertise as a developmental psychologist interested in families and their collaborations with service professionals. The author's own experiences are used to illustrate points made in literature regarding parent-professional collaborations, as well as points made in interviews of other parent...

Computer Music Workstations I Have Known and Loved

This paper introduces a set of design criteria and points of current debate in the development of computer music workstations. It surveys the systems of the last ten years and makes several subjective comments on the design and implementation of computer-based tools for music composition, production, and live performance. The intent is to focus the reader’s attention on the issues of hardware a...

Do Animals Have Personality?

In the scenic Rocky Mountain town of Banff, Alberta, the site of Canada’s oldest national park, it is not un common to see elk grazing on lawns or near riverside trails. Why are elk wandering about town? The town may act as a refuge from wolves—a species that usually goes out of its way to avoid human contact. But elk “ townies,” as the locals refer to them, are a new phenomenon. Prior to the 1...

Do animals have cognitive maps?

Drawing on studies of humans, rodents, birds and arthropods, I show that 'cognitive maps' have been used to describe a wide variety of spatial concepts. There are, however, two main definitions. One, sensu Tolman, O'Keefe and Nadel, is that a cognitive map is a powerful memory of landmarks which allows novel short-cutting to occur. The other, sensu Gallistel, is that a cognitive map is any repr...

Why Animals Don’t Have Language