Schedule and Readings
| Date | Topic | Article |
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Feb 17, 2012 |
Episodic Memory in Rodents |
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Feb 03, 2012 |
Applications of Learning |
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Jan 20, 2012 |
Empathy & Prosocial Behaviour |
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June 03, 2011 |
Ethology Classics: Hawk-Goose Revisited |
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May 20, 2011 |
Social Cognition |
Whiten 2005 (optional)
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May 02, 2011 |
Psych Classics: Tolman |
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Apr. 18, 2011 |
Prey Detection & Foraging Flexibitily |
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Apr. 04, 2011 |
Food Hording |
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Mar. 21, 2011 |
Adapatations & Choice |
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Feb. 14, 2011 |
Free Will & Decision Making |
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Feb. 01, 2011 |
Individual Recognition |
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Jan. 12, 2011 |
Spatial Cognition & Tinbergen's 4 Questions |
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Oct. 18, 2010 |
Picture & Object Preception / Transference |
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Oct. 18, 2010 |
Non-human Primate Gestures |
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Oct. 04, 2010 |
Comparative Cognition (General) |
Shettleworth, 2009 and (optional) Shettleworth, In Press
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Aug 30, 2010 |
Tool Use in Animals: Insight learning or Shaping? |
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July 19, 2010 |
Reinforcement Learning |
Ludvig et al., in press (article will be emailed due to copyright restrictions) |
July 08, 2010 |
Animal Personality |
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May 06, 2010 |
Metacognition |
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May 06, 2010 |
Cognitive Maps |
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Dec. 17th, 2009
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Casual Reasoning
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Nov. 2nd, 2009
|
Geometry & the Geometric
Module
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Oct. 19th, 2009
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Links Between Computer Science
& Animal Behaviour
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Oct. 06th, 2009
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Decision making in animals and
humans
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Sept. 22nd, 2009
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Picture recognition in animals
and humans
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Aug. 26th, 2009
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Tool Use
|
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Aug. 12th, 2009
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Lateralization
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Vallortigara
& Rogers, 2005
Pgs.1-15 |
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July 30th, 2009
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Anthropomorphism
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July 2nd, 2009
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Anthropod Navigation
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