Complex worlds from simpler nervous systems /

Complex worlds from simpler nervous systems / edited by Frederick R. Prete.

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The authors of Complex Worlds from Simpler Nervous Systems explain how animals with small, often minuscule, nervous systems--jumping spiders, bees, praying mantids, toads, and others--are not the simple "reflex machines" they were once thought to be. Because these animals live in the same...

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Online Access: Full Text (via MIT Press)
Other Authors: Prete, Frederick R., 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Cognition in animals.
Learning in animals.
Animal behavior.
Table of Contents:
  • Portia perceptions : the umwelt of an araneophagic jumping spider / Duane P. Harland, Robert R. Jackson
  • Exploration of cognitive capacity in honeybees : higher functions emerge from a small brain / Shaowu Zhang, Mandyam Srinivasan
  • In the mind of a hunter : the visual world of the praying mantis / Karl Kral, Frederick R. Prete
  • Motion perception shapes the visual world of amphibians / Jörg-Peter Ewert
  • Color vision in bees : mechanisms, ecology, and evolution / Lars Chittka, Harrington Wells
  • Color vision and retinal organization in butterflies / Kentaro Arikawa, Michiyo Kinoshita, Doekele G. Stavenga
  • Seasonal variation in the visual world of crayfish / Takahiko Hariyama
  • The unique visual world of mantis shrimps / Thomas W. Cronin, Justin Marshall
  • The octopus's garden : the visual world of cephalopods / Ian G. Gleadall, Nadav Shashar
  • The vigilance of the hunted : mechanosensory-visual integration in insect prey / Christopher Comer, Vicky Leung
  • A novel approach to hearing : the acoustic world of pneumorid grasshoppers / Moira J. van Staaden, Heiner Romer, Vanessa C.K. Couldridge.

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