Leading research workers have contributed to this volume of papers of broad interest, which reflects the recent convergence of different approaches to the subject, using newly developed techniques. Research on sign language in chimpanzees has raised many fundamental and controversial issues on the nature of language and thought in animals, while ethologists and experimental psychologists have also made observations about animal communication and cognitive skills. Some of these developments have also appeared independently, in the context of dissociable capacities from studies of brain function in man, and the nature of brain development in evolution and animal intelligence is one of continuing enquiry. This book brings together the various approaches from both field and laboratory, and highlights some still controversial issues.
L Weiskrantz: Introductory remarks: categorization, cleverness, and
conciousness; H J Jerison: Animal intelligence as encephalization; H B
Barlow: Discussion; E M McPhail: Vertebrate intelligence: the null
hypothesis; H B Barlow: Discussion; N J Mackintosh, B Wilson, & R A Boakes:
Differences in mechanisms of intelligence among vertebrates; H B Barlow:
Discussion; A Dickinson: Actions and habits: the development of behavioural
autonomy; D D Olton: The temporal context of spatial memory; D Gaffan:
Hippocampus: memory, habit, and voluntary movement; R E Passingham: Cortical
mechanisms and cues for action; H S Terrace: Animal cognition: thinking
without language; R J Herrnstein: Riddles of natural categorization; D I
Perrett: Discussion; E W Menzel Jr & C Juno: Social foraging in marmoset
monkeys and the question of intelligence; P Garrud: Discussion; Beatrix T
Gardner & R A Gardner: Signs of intelligence in cross-fostered chimpanzees; E
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Rose A Sevcik, D M Rumbaugh, & Elizabeth Rubert: The
capacity of animals to acquire language: do species differences have anything
to say to us?; D L Cheney & R M Seyfarth: Social and non-social knowledge in
vervet monkeys; H Kummer & Jane Goodall: Conditions of innovative behaviour
in primates; H J Jerison & L Weiskrantz: General discussion.
