From Timing to Planning: Temporal Control of Behavior in Non-Human Animals

Abstract

Future oriented cognition, the group of cognitive processes that incorporate explicit or implicit considerations of future states, is a topic that has received growing interest within animal cognition studies. Through the analysis of associative learning literature and ethological studies, we will justify the attribution of prospective cognition to different species, by way of distinguishing two non-exclusive forms of future oriented cognition: on the one hand planning, on the other hand timing: the cognitive capacity to adjust behavior to temporal regularities in the environment. We will apply this distinction to the work of Frans de Waal on chimpanzees.
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