Book contents
- Animal Communication Theory
- Animal Communication Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction: A primer on information and influence in animal communication
- Part I Varieties of information
- Part II Influence and manipulation
- Part III Case studies
- 10 Animal signals: always influence, sometimes information
- 11 Learned signals and consistency of delivery: a case against receiver manipulation in animal communication
- 12 Information, inference and meaning in primate vocal behaviour
- 13 Information and uncertainty in meerkats and monkeys
- 14 The neural representation of vocalisation perception
- Part IV Animal signals in evolutionary perspective
- Part V From animal signals to human language
- Index
12 - Information, inference and meaning in primate vocal behaviour
from Part III - Case studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
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Book contents
- Animal Communication Theory
- Animal Communication Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction: A primer on information and influence in animal communication
- Part I Varieties of information
- Part II Influence and manipulation
- Part III Case studies
- 10 Animal signals: always influence, sometimes information
- 11 Learned signals and consistency of delivery: a case against receiver manipulation in animal communication
- 12 Information, inference and meaning in primate vocal behaviour
- 13 Information and uncertainty in meerkats and monkeys
- 14 The neural representation of vocalisation perception
- Part IV Animal signals in evolutionary perspective
- Part V From animal signals to human language
- Index
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- Animal Communication TheoryInformation and Influence, pp. 297 - 318Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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