Is a treasure map cognitive? Just ask a wild explorer to inform conspecifics

ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE: EXPERIMENTER’S VIEW

By Zhanna Reznikova

CONTENTS

I. Development of ideas and methods in studying animal intelligence

EVOLUTION OF VIEWES ON ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE

DRAMATIC ADVENTURES OF BEHAVIOURISM

Classical Behaviourism

Skinnerian Branch of Behaviourism

INTELLIGENCE UNDER A SCALPEL: STARTS AND FALSE STARTS OF NEUROSCIENCE

Short memory of neurophysiology

Two sides of reflex: Pavlov’s and Sherrington’s branches of reflexology

The puzzle of the memory trace

INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES AND COHERENT MOVEMENT IN STUDYING ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE

Wholes perceive the wholes: the gestalt approach to perception and learning

A cognitive map of the Learning Land: from Behaviourism to Cognitivism through Gestalt Theory

Forget about schools”: the development of integrative approach to study animal intelligence

ETHOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR STUDYING ANIMAL LEARNING

II. Animals are welcome to the class: learning classes

6. HABITUATION AND ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING

Habituation

Associative Learning

6.2.1. Classical conditioning

6.2.2. Trial-and-error learning and instrumental conditioning

6. 2. 3. Operant Conditioning

Common basis for different forms of associative learning

6.3.1. The role of the motivation in conditioning

6.3.2. Common properties and rules of associative learning

7. LEARNING CLASSES BEYOND “SIMPLE” ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING

III. Past and future in animal life: remembering, updating and anticipation

8. WHAT MEMORY IS FOR AN INTELLIGENT ANIMAL?

Kinds of memory

Different bodies, different memories

9. CHICKS DO NOT SUFFER FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA: BRIEFLY ABOUT BRAIN MECHANISMS FOR PROCESSING AND STORING MEMORY

Searching for spatial localisation of memory

Becoming memories: consolidation

10. BEHAVIOURAL MECHANISMS OF EXPERIENCE OF TIME

Travel into the Past: delayed response behaviour

Travel into the Future: anticipatory coding and prediction

Foraging as soon as possible: impulsiveness and self-control in animals

IV. To be in time in the right place: representation of space and objects in animal mind

11. NAVIGATION STRATEGIES IN ANIMALS

Display of navigation in animals

Ways of navigation in animals

Redundant sources of spatial information in animals

Mapping in the context of natural histories

12. TO WHAT DEGREE MAPPING IS COGNITIVE IN ANIMALS?

Cognitive mapping as a methodological problem

Rectifying the track to the aim: short cutting and detours as elements of cognitive mapping in animals

Is a treasure map cognitive? Just ask a wild explorer to inform conspecifics

13. “OBJECT PERMANENCE” IN ANIMALS