Content of lectures: FS: 1) Introduction - what is cognition, comparative approach, evolution of brain and cognition. 2) Perception and attention - sensory ecology, what animals perceive, signal detection, role of attention. 3) Learning - advantage and limits of the process, conditioning, learning types for object recognition. 4) Memory - functions and attributes of memory, what is remembered and why is it forgotten? RF: 5) Discrimination, clasification, and concepts - reaction to natural stimuli, clasification of complex stimuli, discrimination learning, category discrimination and concepts, key features, signals. 6) Spatial cognition - orientation, navigation, cognitive maps, landmarks, spatial geometry, path integration, sun compass, magnetic orientation, distance assessment. 7) Time orientation - circadian rhythms, interval timing. 8) Numerical competence - numerosity discrimination, tracking of objects, serial position. MK: 9) Social intelligence - hypothesis on its origin, features of social knowledge, social understanding. 10) Theory of mind - self awareness, self-concepts, cheating, cooperation. 11) Social learning - learning in context, learning without and with imitation, animals as teachers, what could be learned (food preference, mobbing, mate choice), animal traditions and cultures. 12) Communication and language - natural communication systems, animal communication and language evolution, human-animal communication.
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