Causal mechanisms of behavioural development / edited by Jerry A. Hogan and Johan J. Bolhuis.

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The concept of cause in the study of behavior / J.A. Hogan --Neurobiological analyses of behavioural mechanisms in development / J.J. Bolhuis -- The neural basis for the acquisition and production of bird song / T.J. DeVoogd -- Sexual imprinting as a two-stage process / J.J. Bischof -- The influence of social interactions on the development of song and sexual preferences in birds / N.S. Clayton -- Perceptual mechanisms in imprinting and song learning / C. ten Cate -- The ontogeny of social displays: interplay between motor development, development of motivational systems and social experience / T.G.G. Groothuis -- Psychobiology of the early mother-young relationship / A.S. Fleming, E.M. Blass.

Development of behavior systems / J.A. Hogan -- Cortical mechanisms of cognitive development / M.H. Johnson -- Cognitive development in animals / D.F. Sherry -- The biological building blocks of spoken language / J.L. Locke -- Behavioral change as a result of experience: toward principles of learning and development / P.D. Balsam, R. Silver -- The varieties of learning in development: toward a common framework / S.J. Shettleworth -- Representation development in associative systems / I.P.L. McLaren.

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.