Primate Cognitive Studies

Researchers have studied non-human primate cognition along different paths, including social cognition, planning and causal knowledge, spatial cognition and memory, and gestural communication, as well as comparative studies with humans. This volume describes how primate cognition is studied in labs, zoos, sanctuaries, and in the field, bringing together researchers examining similar issues in all of these settings and showing how each benefits from the others. Readers will discover how lab-based concepts play out in the real world of free primates. This book tackles pressing issues such as replicability, research ethics, and open science. With contributors from a broad range of comparative, cognitive, neuroscience, developmental, ecological, and ethological perspectives, the volume provides a state-of-the-art review pointing to new avenues for integrative research.

Bennett L. Schwartz is Professor of Psychology at Florida International University. He conducts research on human metacognition and memory and has published over 100 journal articles, books, and book chapters. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of New Ideas in Psychology and Associate Editor of Metacognition and Learning and Acta Psychologica. Michael J. Beran is Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Language Research Center at Georgia State University. He has published over 200 journal articles and fifty edited books and encyclopedias. He is the co-editor of Foundations of Metacognition (2012) and author of Self-control in Animals and People (2018).