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Part 1 Introductory issues: comparative approaches to cognitive science,Herbert L. Roitblat; the animal approach to cognitive science, Jean-ArcadyMeyer; creative creatures, Margaret A. Boden. Part 2 Intentions and theorganization of behaviour: animal behaviour in four components, Bartlett W.Mel; intentionality - natural and artificial, Colin Allen; do animals havebeliefs?, Daniel C. Dennett; cognitive ethology and the explanation ofnonhuman animal behaviour, Marc Bekoff; perceptual control theory, W. ThomasBourbon. Part 3 Representation: natural and relational concepts in animals,Roger K.R. Thompson; the integration of content with context - spatiotemporalencoding and episodic memories in people and animals, Julie J. Neiworth;spatial information processing in animals, Catherine Thinus-Blanc; complexadaptive systems as intuitive statisticians - causality, contingency andprediction, Patricia W. Cheng and Keith J. Holyoak. Part 4 Memory andattention: a model of the brain and the memory system, J. Delacour; factorsin visual attention eliciting manual pointing in human infancy, GeorgeButterworth. Part 5 Communication: language and animal communication -parallels and contrasts, Christopher S. Evans and Peter Marler; toward theacquisition of language and the evolution of communication - a syntheticapproach, Michael G. Dyer. Part 6 Motivation and emotion: opportunity versusgoals in robots, animals and people, David McFarland; animal motivation andcognition, Frederick Toates; cognition and emotion in animals and machines,J.R.P. Halperin; emotions in robots, Nico H. Frijda.