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Cognitive ethology - MB170P64
Title: Kognitivní etologie
Czech title: Kognitivní etologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Zoology (31-170)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2006
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Alice Exnerová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. Mgr. Alice Exnerová, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Alice Exnerová, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
The Cognitive Ethology course represents a comparative approach to cognitive aspects of animal behaviour. Cognitive Ethology integrates diverse approaches to the study of mechanisms involved in acquisition, processing, storing, and using information from the environment, with an accent on ecological and evolutionary context of cognitive mechanisms. Lecture is intended for MSc students of zoology. Please note, the lectures are given in Czech language. English version of the course can be requested in advance if there are at least 5 students.
Literature -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Alice Exnerová, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)

Balda R. P., Pepperberg I.M. & Kamil A.C. (eds) 1998: Animal Cognition in Nature: The Convergence of Psychology and Biology in Laboratory and Field, Academic Press, San Diego.

Dukas R. (ed.) 2009: Cognitive Ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London.

Heyes C. & Huber L. 2000: The Evolution of Cognition. MIT Press, Cambridge

Mackintosh N. J. (ed.) 1994: Animal Learning and Cognition. Academic Press, San Diego.

Lieberman D. A. 2000: Learning, Behaviour, and Cognition. Wadsworth. Belmont.

Ruxton GD, Sherratt TN, Speed MP. 2004. Avoiding Attack. Oxford University Press. New York.

Shettleworth S. J. 2010: Cognition, Evolution, and Behaviour. Oxford University Press, New York.

Pearce JM. 2008: Animal Learning and Cognition. Psychology Press. New York.

Wynne CDL. & Udell MAR. 2013: Animal Cognition: Evolution, Behavior and Cognition. Palgrave MacMillan, New York.

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: doc. Mgr. Alice Exnerová, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)

Zkouška je ústní; rozsah požadovaných znalostí je dán rozsahem přednášky. Studenti mohou využít také doporučenou literaturu.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Alice Exnerová, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)

1) What is cognitive ethology? Definition of the discipline, its aims, methods and questions addressed.

2) Perception, sensory specialisation, object perception, perceptual completion, signal detection theory.

3) Attention, limited and divided attantion, searching images. 

4) Learning, habituation, imprinting, associative learning, classical and operant conditioning, insight learning, adaptive specialisation, learning as phenotypic plasticity.

5) Recognition, discrimination, and categorisation, generalisation and peak shift, abstraction.

6) Memory, coding, storing, and retrieving of information, working and reference memory, short-term and long-term memory, episodic memory.

7) Spatial orientation, landmarks, routes, and cognitive maps, navigation.

8) Social learning, innovations, observation conditioning, emulation, imitation, traditions, teaching.

9) Physical cognition and tool using, tool manufacture.

10) Design and recognition of signals, coevolution of signals and recognition mechanisms.

 
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