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.
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"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
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
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.
