Beyond the Brain : : How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds /

Beyond the Brain : : How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds / / Louise Barrett.

When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have dif...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Barrett, Louise,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 14 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Removing Ourselves from the Picture
  • Chapter 2. The Anthropomorphic Animal
  • Chapter 3. Small Brains, Smart Behavior
  • Chapter 4. The Implausible Nature of Portia
  • Chapter 5. When Do You Need a Big Brain?
  • Chapter 6. The Ecology of Psychology
  • Chapter 7. Metaphorical Mind Fields
  • Chapter 8. There Is No Such Thing as a Naked Brain
  • Chapter 9. World in Action
  • Chapter 10. Babies and Bodies
  • Chapter 11. Wider than the Sky
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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