Animals as problem solvers and decision makers are celebrated in Animal
Cognition (Harvard University Press, £19.95, ISBN 0 674 03703 0). Jacques
Vauclair, a laboratory-based cognitive neuroscientist from Marseille, focuses on
similarities in the way pigeons, rats and monkeys structure information, but
remains sceptical about attempts to study animal “consciousness”.
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