Editing Ecology (section)

=== Cognitive ecology ===

Cognitive ecology integrates theory and observations from [[evolutionary ecology]] and [[neurobiology]], primarily [[cognitive science]], in order to understand the effect that animal interaction with their habitat has on their cognitive systems and how those systems restrict behavior within an ecological and evolutionary framework.<ref name=Palacios>{{cite journal |journal=Biology Research |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=95–99 |year=2003 |title=An "enactive" approach to integrative and comparative biology: Thoughts on the table |author=Adrian G Palacios, [[Francisco Bozinovic]] |doi=10.4067/S0716-97602003000100008 |pmid=12795209 |last2=Bozinovic |doi-access=free }}</ref> "Until recently, however, cognitive scientists have not paid sufficient attention to the fundamental fact that cognitive traits evolved under particular natural settings. With consideration of the selection pressure on cognition, cognitive ecology can contribute intellectual coherence to the multidisciplinary study of cognition."<ref name=Dukas>{{cite book |title=Cognitive Ecology: The Evolutionary Ecology of Information Processing and Decision Making |author=Reuven Dukas |editor=Reuven Dukas |isbn=978-0-226-16932-3 |year=1998 |chapter=§1.3 Why study cognitive ecology? |publisher=University of Chicago Press |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nNRXQM7_R0UC&pg=PA4 |page=4 |access-date=27 June 2015 |archive-date=18 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318140450/http://books.google.com/books?id=nNRXQM7_R0UC&pg=PA4 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Dukas2>{{cite book |title=Cognitive Ecology II |chapter=Introduction |pages=1 ''ff'' |author1=Reuven Dukas |author2=John M. Ratcliffe |editor1=Reuven Dukas |editor2=John M. Ratcliffe |isbn=978-0-226-16937-8 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2009 |quote=Cognitive ecology focuses on the ecology and evolution of "cognition" defined as the neuronal processes concerned with the acquisition, retention, and use of information....we ought to rely on ecological and evolutionary knowledge for studying cognition. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TAiAcZ0Q9LQC&pg=PA1 |access-date=27 June 2015 |archive-date=18 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318133553/http://books.google.com/books?id=TAiAcZ0Q9LQC&pg=PA1 |url-status=live }}</ref> As a study involving the 'coupling' or interactions between organism and environment, cognitive ecology is closely related to [[enactivism]],<ref name=Palacios/> a field based upon the view that "...we must see the organism and environment as bound together in reciprocal specification and selection...".<ref name=Varela>{{cite book |author1=Francisco J Varela |author2=Evan Thompson |author3=Eleanor Rosch |year=1993 |title=The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience |publisher=MIT Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QY4RoH2z5DoC |isbn=978-0-262-26123-4 |page=174 |access-date=27 June 2015 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801065309/https://books.google.com/books?id=QY4RoH2z5DoC |url-status=live }}</ref>