Schedule and Readings

 

Date Topic Article
Feb 17, 2012
Episodic Memory in Rodents
Feb 03, 2012
Applications of Learning
Jan 20, 2012
Empathy & Prosocial Behaviour
June 03, 2011
Ethology Classics: Hawk-Goose Revisited
May 20, 2011
Social Cognition


Whiten 2005 (optional)
May 02, 2011
Psych Classics: Tolman
Apr. 18, 2011
Prey Detection & Foraging Flexibitily
Apr. 04, 2011
Food Hording
Mar. 21, 2011
Adapatations & Choice
Feb. 14, 2011
Free Will & Decision Making
Feb. 01, 2011
Individual Recognition
Jan. 12, 2011
Spatial Cognition & Tinbergen's 4 Questions
Oct. 18, 2010
Picture & Object Preception / Transference
Oct. 18, 2010
Non-human Primate Gestures
Oct. 04, 2010
Comparative Cognition (General)
Aug 30, 2010
Tool Use in Animals: Insight learning or Shaping?
July 19, 2010
Reinforcement Learning
Ludvig et al., in press
(article will be emailed due to copyright restrictions)
July 08, 2010
Animal Personality
May 06, 2010
Metacognition
May 06, 2010
Cognitive Maps
Dec. 17th, 2009
Casual Reasoning
Nov. 2nd, 2009
Geometry & the Geometric Module
Oct. 19th, 2009
Links Between Computer Science & Animal Behaviour
Oct. 06th, 2009
Decision making in animals and humans
Sept. 22nd, 2009
Picture recognition in animals and humans
Aug. 26th, 2009
Tool Use
Aug. 12th, 2009
Lateralization
July 30th, 2009
Anthropomorphism
July 2nd, 2009
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