On Feb 2, 2016, at 6:34 AM, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've begun to search for more information but wasn't certain what search > terms to use (I was getting lots of hits that seemed irrelevant to what I > want to know). I'm starting to answer my own question (tried different search terms). If anyone is onterested, here are a couple of recent articles that look promising, although I haven't read them yet: Shettleworth, S. J. (2012). Do animals have insight, and what is insight anyway? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 66(4), 217-226. doi: 10.1037/a0030674 ABSTRACT We cannot test animals for insight's distinctive phenomenology, the “aha” experience, but we can study the processes underlying insightful behaviour, classically described by Köhler as sudden solution of a problem after an impasse. The central question in the study of insightful behaviour in any species is whether it is the product of a distinctive cognitive process, insight. Although some claims for insight in animals confuse it with other problem-solving processes, contemporary research on string pulling and other physical problems, primarily with birds, has uncovered new examples of insightful behaviour and shed light on the role of experience in producing it. New research suggests insightful behaviour can be captured in common laboratory tasks while brain activity is monitored, opening the way to better integration of research on animals with the cognitive neuroscience of human insight Vallortigara, G., Chiandetti, C., Rugani, R., Sovrano, V. A., & Regolin, L. (2010). Animal cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1(6), 882-893. doi: 10.1002/wcs.75 ABSTRACT The main topics in the study of animal cognition are reviewed with special reference to direct links to human, and in particular developmental, cognitive sciences. The material is organized with regard to the general idea that biological organisms would be endowed with a small set of separable systems of core knowledge, a prominent hypothesis in the current developmental cognitive sciences. Core knowledge systems would serve to represent inanimate physical objects and their mechanical interactions (natural physics); numbers with their relationships of ordering, addition, and subtraction (natural mathematics); places in the spatial layout with their geometric relationships (natural geometry); and animate psychological objects (agents) with their goal-directed actions (natural psychology). Some advanced forms of animal cognition, such as episodic-like representations and planning for the future, are also discussed. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social/Behavioral Sciences Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Fax: (480) 423-6298 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJeffryRicker/timeline/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeffry-ricker/3b/511/438 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=48045 or send a blank email to leave-48045-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
