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Neurobiology of "Umwelt" How Living Beings Perceive the World /

At the beginning of the 20th century, German biologist Jakob von Uexküll created the concept of "Umwelt" to denote the environment as experienced by a subject. This concept of environment differs from the idea of passive surroundings and is defined not just by physical surroundings, but i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Berthoz, Alain (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anthropological Physiology: von Uexküll, Portmann, Buytendijk
  • Essentialist Reasoning about the Biological World
  • The Human Brain "Projects" upon the World, Simplifying Principles and Rules for Perception
  • Umwelt: A Psychomotor Functional Event
  • The Brain's View of the World Depends on What it has to Know
  • The Biology of Variations in Mammalian Color Vision
  • The Evolution of Social Categories
  • What is the Effect of Affect on Bonobo and Chimpanzee Problem Solving?
  • Dogs (Canis familiaris) are Adapted to Receive Human Communication
  • What Do Jays Know About Other Minds and Other Times?
  • Blind as a Bat? The Sensory Basis of Orientation and Navigation at Night
  • Point, Line and Counterpoint: From Environment to Fluid Space.