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Hardcover | 18 July 1994

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How does behaviour develop in humans and animals? What are the causal mechanisms governing this behaviour? These important questions are addressed in this book, first published in 1994. All the significant conceptual and empirical advances in this study of behavioural development are discussed in this volume by a wide range of scientists from different disciplines. A special feature of the approach taken here is that learning, as studied by experimental psychologists, is considered to be one process contributing to the development of the individual from conception to death. The development of the brain is also discussed in relation to behavioural processes. The book is dedicated to Jaap Kruijit, whose pioneering approach to the study of causal mechanisms of behavioural development has inspired many workers in this field. It will be an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in animal behaviour, psychology, and neuroscience.

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"Considering the variety of its topics, the obvious expertise of its contributors and the scope of the research they discuss (most chapters contain 50 to 100 references), it is difficult to imagine how anyone interested in behavioral development would fail to be informed by the wealth of material documented in the pages of this landmark volume." Howard S. Hoffman, Contemporary Psychology

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Non-Fiction Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Genetics excluding Medical Psychology Child & Developmental Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Zoology & Animal Sciences Animal Behaviour

Introduction Jaap Kruijt G. P. Baerends
Introduction
The concept of cause in the study of behaviour
Neurobiological analyses of behavioural mechanisms in development
Development of Perceptual and Motor Mechanisms
The neural basis for the acquisition and production of bird song
Sexual imprinting as a two-stage process
The influence of social interactions on the development of song and sexual preference in birds
Perceptual mechanisms in imprinting and song learning
The development of action patterns
Development of Behaviour Systems
The ontogeny of social displays: interplay between motor development, development of motivational systems and social experience
Psychobiology of the early mother - young relationship
Development of behaviour systems
Development of Cognition
Cortical mechanisms of cognitive development
Cognitive development in animals
The biological building blocks of spoken language
Learning and Development
Behavioural change as a result of experience: toward principles of learning and development
The varieties of learning in development: toward a common framework
Representation development in associative systems
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