Gervet J, Gallo A, Chalmeau R, Soleilhavoup M
Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Acta Biotheor. 1996 Mar;44(1):37-57. doi: 10.1007/BF00046434.
A distinction is made between two definitions of animal cognition: the one most frequently employed in cognitive sciences considers cognition as extracting and processing information; a more phenomenologically inspired model considers it as attributing to a form of the outside world a significance, linked to the state of the animal. The respective fields of validity of these two models are discussed along with the limitations they entail, and the questions they pose to evolutionary biologists are emphasized. This is followed by a presentation of a general overview of what might be the study of the evolution of knowledge in animals.
动物认知有两种定义，二者存在区别：认知科学中最常使用的一种定义将认知视为信息提取与处理；另一种受现象学启发更多的模型则将其视为赋予外部世界的一种形式以与动物状态相关的意义。文中讨论了这两种模型各自的有效范围以及它们所带来的局限性，并强调了它们给进化生物学家提出的问题。接下来是对动物知识进化研究可能涵盖内容的总体概述。
