Animal communication theory: information and influence / ed. by U.E.Stegmann, University of Aberdeen, UK. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. - xviii, 452 p.: ill. - Incl. bibl. ref. - Ind.: p.443-452. - ISBN 978-1-107-01310-0  Место хранения:   020 | Институт вычислительного моделирования СО РАН | Красноярск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

Preface ..................................................... ix List of contributors ...................................... xiii Introduction: A primer on information and influence in animal communication ......................................... 1 Ulrich E. Stegmann Part I Varieties of information ............................... 41 1 Influence and information in communication networks ......... 43 Andrew G. Horn and Peter K. McGregor 2 Animal communication as information-mediated influence ...... 63 Andrea Scarantino 3 Communication as information use: insights from statistical decision theory ............................................. 89 Caitlin R. Kight, John M. McNamara, David W. Stephens and Sasha R.X. Dall 4 Communication as a transfer of information: measurement, mechanism and meaning ...................................... 113 R. Haven Wiley 5 Natural information, intentional signs and animal communication .............................................. 133 Ruth G. Millikan Part II Influence and manipulation ............................ 149 6 Communication without meaning or information: abandoning language-based and informational constructs in animal communication theory ....................................... 151 Drew Rendall and Michael J. Owren 7 Information in animal communication: when and why does it matter? .................................................... 189 Sahotra Sarkar 8 Mitogenetic rays and the information metaphor: transmitted information has had its day .................... 207 Eugene S. Morton and Richard G. Coss 9 The importance of integrative biology to sexual selection and communication .......................................... 233 Michael J. Ryan Part III Case studies ......................................... 257 10 Animal signals: always influence, sometimes information .... 259 Claire Horisk and Reginald B. Cocroft 11 Learned signals and consistency of delivery: a case against receiver manipulation in animal communication ...... 281 Carlos A. Botero and Selvino R. de Kort 12 Information, inference and meaning in primate vocal behaviour .................................................. 297 Julia Fischer 13 Information and uncertainty in meerkats and monkeys ........ 319 Colin Allen 14 The neural representation of vocalisation perception ....... 337 Kate L. Christison-Lagay and Yale E. Cohen Part IV Animal signals in evolutionary perspective ............ 355 15 The value of information in signals and cues ............... 357 Michael Lachmann 16 Information and influence in sender-receiver models, with applications to animal behaviour ........................... 377 Peter Godfrey-Smith Part V From animal signals to human language .................. 397 17 Information, meaning and animal communication .............. 399 Fred Adams and Steve M. Beighley 18 Information, influence and inference in language evolution .................................................. 421 Thomas C. Scott-Phillips and Simon Kirby Index ...................................................... 443