Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence
- ISBN-10
- 0195167651
- ISBN-13
- 9780195167658
- Series
- Comparative Cognition
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 704
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Authors
- Edward A. Wasserman, Edward A.. Wasserman, Thomas R. Zentall
Description
This text focuses on the scientific study of animal intelligence. It celebrates comparative cognition's first quarter century, with a collection of chapters, covering the realm of the scientific study of animal intelligence.
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