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Similarities Between Human And Animal Spatial Memory: Item And Order Information, Robert H.I. Dale Jun 2014

Similarities Between Human And Animal Spatial Memory: Item And Order Information, Robert H.I. Dale

Robert H. I. Dale

Human subjects, sitting at the center of a circle of eight lights, were tested on analogues of radial-maze item-recognition (Roberts & Smythe, 1979) and order-recognition (Kesner & Novak, 1982) tasks. Subjects in the item-recognition condition saw a list of seven lights, and then the nonlist (eighth) light was tested against the first, fourth, or seventh light from the list. The sub- jects were required to point toward the non list light. Subjects in the order-recognition condition saw a series of eight lights, followed by a test of the first and second, fourth and fifth, or seventh and eighth serial positions. …


Cognitive Ethology And The Cost Of Anthropomorphiphobia, Robert H.I. Dale Jun 2014

Cognitive Ethology And The Cost Of Anthropomorphiphobia, Robert H.I. Dale

Robert H. I. Dale

Book review for the following titles: Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness. By Donald R. Griffin, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, 376 pages. $27.50 softcover The Smile of a Dolphin: Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions. Edited by Marc Bekoff, New York: Discovery Books, 2000, 240 pages. $35.00 hardcover Minds of Their Own: Thinking and Awareness in Animals. By Lesley J. Rogers, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998, 224 pages. $19.00 softcover