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COGNITIVE ECOLOGY II

Edited by

REUVEN DUKAS and JOHN M. RATCLIFFE

2009

The University of Chicago Press

 

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1. Introduction

REUVEN DUKAS and JOHN M. RATCLIFFE

 

PART I      LEARNING: ULTIMATE AND PROXIMATE MECHANISMS 

 

2. Learning: Mechanisms, Ecology and Evolution

REUVEN DUKAS

2.1 Introduction

2.2 What is learning?

2.3 Why learn?

2.4 Who learns?

2.5 What do animals learn?

2.6 Is learning important?

2.7 Prospects

 

3. The How and Why of Structural Plasticity in the Adult Honey Bee Brain

SUSAN E. FAHRBACH and SCOTT DOBRIN

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The honeybee as a model for the study of neural plasticity

3.3 Mushroom bodies: neuroanatomy

3.4 How does foraging experience change the structure of the honeybee mushroom bodies?

3.5 What is the function of the honeybee mushroom bodies?

3.6 Why are the mushroom bodies larger in experienced foragers?

3.7 Studies of experience-dependent plasticity in the mushroom bodies of other insects

3.8 Specific future directions

 

PART II     AVIAN COGNITION: MEMORY, SONG AND INNOVATION

 

4. More on the Cognitive Ecology of Song Communication and Song Learning in the Song Sparrow

MICHAEL D. BEECHER and JOHN M. BURT

4.1 Introductions

4.2 Background

4.3 Song learning in the field

4.4 Communication by song in male-male interactions

4.5 Social eavesdropping hypothesis

4.6 Discussion

4.7 Summary

 

5. Consequences of Brain Development for Sexual Signaling in Songbirds

WILLIAM A. SEARCY and STEPHEN NOWICKI

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The song system

5.3 Female preferences for song attributes

5.4 Experimental tests of the developmental stress

5.5 Effects of developmental stress on phenotypic quality

5.6 Conclusions and prospects

 

6. Development of Spatial Memory and the Hippocampus under Nutritional Stress: Adaptive Priorities or Developmental Constraints in Brain Development?

VLADIMIR V. PRAVOSUDOV

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Spatial memory and the hippocampus in birds

6.3 Nutritional deficits during post-hatching development, spatial memory and the hippocampus in western scrub-jays Aphelocoma californica

6.4 Nutritional deficits during postnatal development and the hippocampus in mammals

6.5 Hippocampus and song brain nuclei in birds

6.6 Does lack of nutrition directly cause changes in the brain?

6.7 Stem cells

6.8 Conclusions

 

7. The Cognitive-Buffer Hypothesis for the Evolution of Large Brains

DANIEL SOL

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Assumptions of the cognitive buffer hypothesis

7.3 Predictions of the cognitive buffer hypothesis

7.4 Synthesis

7.5 Future avenues

7.6 Summary

 

PART III   DECISION MAKING: MATE CHOICE AND PREDATOR PREY INTERACTIONS

 

8. Cognitive Mate Choice

MICHAEL J. RYAN, KARIN L. AKRE, and MARK KIRKPATRICK

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Detection and perception

8.3 Evaluation and decision

8.4 Conclusions and directions

 

9. Monogamous Brains and Alternative Tactics: Neuronal V1aR, Space Use and Sexual Infidelity among Male Prairie Voles 

STEVEN M. PHELPS and ALEXANDER G. OPHIR

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Reproductive decisions, space use and mating tactics

9.3 Neural substrates of alternative tactics

9.4 Microsatellite polymorphisms and phenotypic diversity

9.5 Monogamy and cognitive ecology reconsidered

 

10. Assessing Risk: Embryos, Information and Escape Hatching

KAREN M. WARKENTIN and MICHAEL S. CALDWELL

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Cognitive strategies to assess risk using non-stereotyped cues

10.3 Adaptive responses of embryos in heterogeneous environments

10.4 Hatching decisions: information use by red-eyed treefrog embryos

10.5 Conclusions and future directions

 

11. Predator-Prey Interaction in an Auditory World

JOHN M. RATCLIFFE

11.1 Of bats and moths and coevolution

11.2 Sensory ecology and foraging strategies of predatory bats

11.3 Auditory-evoked defensive behaviors in noctuoid moths

11.4 Bat detection and the primary and secondary defenses of moths

11.5 Summary and conclusions

11.6 Future directions

 

PART IV   COGNITION AND SOCIALITY

 

12. What do Functionally Referential Alarm Calls Refer to?

MARTA B. MANSER

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Meerkat alarm calls

12.3 What do functionally referential alarm calls refer to?

12.4 Why are some alarm calls considered functionally referential and not others?

12.5 Functionally referential calls explained by emotional expressions of the signaller?

12.6 Conclusions

12.7 Summary

 

13. Adaptive Trade-Offs in the Use of Social and Personal Information

RACHEL L. KENDAL, ISABELLE COOLEN, and KEVIN N. LALAND

13.1 Introduction

13.2 “When” Strategies

13.3 “Who” Strategies

13.4 Evolutionary Implications

13.5 Summary and Future Directions

 

14. The 3E’s approach to social information use in birds: ecology, ethology and evolutionary history

IRA G. FEDERSPIEL, NICOLA S. CLAYTON, and NATHAN J. EMERY

14.1     Introduction

14.2     Case studies

14.3     Conclusions

 

15. Prospects

REUVEN DUKAS and JOHN M. RATCLIFFE

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