Neuroethology of spatial cognition

The Neuroethology of Vocal Communication: Perception and Cognition

In its most common sense, acoustic communication occurs between animals, but in special cases it may occur within individual animals in the context of autocommunication. Communication can be described as an information exchange that alters the behavior of the communicating animals. Acoustic communication signals (typically vocalizations) are shaped by the physics of the sound-producing organs, ...

Spatial Cognition, Spatial Perception

“Where am I? Where am I going? How do I get there?” These are the questions on the minds of Spatial Cognition, Spatial Perception’s authors. And since this reviewer has chosen to write his review on location in a remote and unfamiliar city while traveling for a conference, such questions are on my mind as well. As my enormous human prefrontal cortex and conveniently opposable thumbs allow me to...

Development of spatial cognition.

Spatial cognition plays an essential role in everyday functioning and provides a foundation for successful performance in scientific and technological fields. Reasoning about space involves processing information about distance, angles, and direction. Starting from infancy, children display sensitivity to these spatial properties, although their initial skills are quite limited. Subsequent deve...

Synthetic Neuroethology

Computation and philosophy intersect three times in this essay. Computation is considered as an object, as a method, and as a model used in a certain line of philosophical inquiry concerning the relation of mind to matter. As object, the question considered is whether computation and related notions of mental representation constitute the best ways to conceive of how physical systems give rise ...

The Neuroethology of Vocal Communication : Perception and Cognition TIMOTHY Q . GENTNER