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Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1996. How do bats catch insects in the dark? How do bees learn which flowers to visit? How do food-storing birds remember where their hoards are? Questions like these are addressed by neuroethology, the branch of behavioral neuroscience concerned with analyzing the neural bases of naturally occurring behaviors.This book brings together thirteen chapters presenting findings on perceptual and cognitive processes in some of the most active areas of neuroethological research, including auditory localization by bats and owls, song perception and learning in birds, pitch processing by frogs and toads, imprinting in birds, spatial memory in birds, learning in bees and in Aplysia, and electroreception in fish. A variety of approaches are represented, such as field studies, psychophysical tests, electrophysiological experiments, lesion studies, comparative neuroanatomy, and studies of development.Each chapter gives an up-to-date overview of a particular authors research and…
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Neuroethological Studies of Cognitive and Perceptual Processes Hardcover - 1996
by Cynthia Moss; Sara J. Shettleworth
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- Title Neuroethological Studies of Cognitive and Perceptual Processes
- Author Cynthia Moss; Sara J. Shettleworth
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, Boulder, CO.
- Date 1996-02
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780813326542 / 0813326540
- Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 9.58 x 6.48 x 1.21 in (24.33 x 16.46 x 3.07 cm)
- Reading level 1380
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95049747
- Dewey Decimal Code 591.51
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