Psych 19 Fiat Lux Winter 2008
Course Documents
Reading Assignments:
January 10 - Introduction
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January 24 - Tool use in chimpanzees and New Caledonian crows in the wild
Inoue-Nakamura, N., & Matsuzawa, T. (1997). Development of stone tool use by wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 111, 159-173. (PDF).
Hunt, G. R. (1996). Manufacture and use of hook-tools by New Caledonian crows. Nature, 379, 249-251. (PDF).
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February 14 - Tool use in the lab
Weir, A. A. S., Chappell, J., & Kacelnik, A. (2002). Shaping of hooks in New Caledonian crows. Science, 297, 981. (PDF).
Weir, A. A. S., & Kacelnik, A. (2006). A New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides) creatively redesigns tools by bending or unbending aluminium strips. Animal Cognition, 9, 317-334. (PDF).
Limongelli, L., Boysen, S. T., & Visalberghi, E. (1995). Comprehension of cause-effect relations in a tool-use task by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 109, 18-26. (PDF).
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February 21 - What do primates and birds 'think' about the tools they use?
Silva, F. J., Page, D. M., & Silva, K. M. (2005). Methodological-conceptual problems in the study of chimpanzees' folk physics: How studies with adult humans can help. Learning & Behavior, 33, 47-58. (PDF).
Mulcahy, N. J., & Call, J. (2006). How great apes perform on a modified trap-tube task. Animal Cognition, 9, 193-199. (PDF).
Seed, A. M., Tebbich, S., Emery, N. J., & Clayton, N. S. (2006). Investigating physical cognition in rooks, Corvus frugilegus. Current Biology, 16, 697-701. (PDF).
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March 6 - Causal reasoning in rats and tamarins
Woodward, J. (2007). Interventionist theories of causation in psychological perspective. In Causal learning: Psychology, philosophy, and computation, Gopnik, A. & Schulz, L. (Eds.). pp. 19-36. (PDF).
Blaisdell, A. P., Sawa, K., Leising, K. J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2006). Causal reasoning in rats. Science, 311, 1020-1022. (PDF).
Hauser, M., Pearson, H., & Seelig, D. (2002). Ontogeny of tool-use in cotton-top tamarins, Saguinus oedipus: Innate recognition of functionally relevant features. Animal Behaviour, 64, 299-311. (PDF).