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Some prerequisites for a study of the evolution of cognition in the animal kingdom
Authors:Jacques Gervet  Alain Gallo  Raphael Chalmeau  Muriel Soleilhavoup
Institution:(1) UFR SVT - Bât. 4 R 3 - Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France
Abstract:A distinction is made between two definitions of animal cognition: the one most frequently employed in cognitive sciences considers cognition as extracting and processing information; a more phenomenologically inspired model considers it as attributing to a form of the outside world a significance, linked to the state of the animal. The respective fields of validity of these two models are discussed along with the limitations they entail, and the questions they pose to evolutionary biologists are emphasized. This is followed by a presentation of a general overview of what might be the study of the evolution of knowledge in animals.
Keywords:Animal cognition  Evolution  Representation  Computation  Significance  Phenomenology  Autonomy
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