Irene Maxine Pepperberg

Broschiertes Buch

The Alex Studies

Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots

Beschreibung

Twenty years ago Pepperberg set out to discover whether large-brained, highly social parrots were capable of mastering complex cognitive concepts and the rudiments of referential speech. This book represents the long-awaited synthesis of the studies constituting one of the landmark experiments in modern comparative psychology.

Autor

Irene Maxine Pepperberg is Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Associate Professor of Psychology, and Affiliate in the Program in Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. She is the winner of the 2000 Selby Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Sciences and was made a Fellow of the American Psychological Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9780674008069
• ISBN-10: 0674008065
• Artikelnr.: 21166932