Advances in the study of behavior. Volume 41 /

Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" by presenting theoretic...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brockmann, H. Jane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Advances in the study of behavior.
Temas:
Animal behavior.
Human behavior.
Psychology, Comparative.
Comportement humain.
Psychologie compar�ee.
human behavior.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > General.
Animal behavior
Human behavior
Psychology, Comparative
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  • Front Cover; Advances in The Study of Behavior; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: The Cognition of Caching and Recovery in Food-Storing Birds; I. Introduction; II. Use of Spatial Memory to Recover Caches; III. Variation; A. Differences Between Parids and Corvids; B. Differences within Corvid Species; C. Population Differences; IV. Caching, Recovery, and the Hippocampus; A. Hippocampal Volume and Spatial Memory; B. Hippocampal Plasticity; C. Alternative Neural Solutions; D. A Modular Approach to Spatial Learning; E. Beyond Spatial Memory
  • F. The Cognitive Skills of the Western Scrub-JayV. Adaptive Specialization?; VI. Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: The Evolution of Mate Preferences, Sensory Biases, and Indicator Traits; I. Introduction; A. Sexual Selection; B. Preference Evolution Theory; C. Empirical Research on Mate Preference Evolution; D. Overview of This Chapter; II. New Approach for Testing the Indicator Models; A. Indicator Model Prediction; B. Carotenoid-Dependent Indicators; C. Detailed Case Study: Trinidadian Guppies; III. Evolution of Indicator Traits; A. The Theory of Honest Signaling
  • B. The Carotenoid Coloration ParadoxC. Detailed Case Study: Trinidadian Guppies; IV. Additional Suggestions for Further Research; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3: Age-Related Changes in Birds� Singing Styles: On Fresh Tunes and Fading Voices?; I. Introduction; II. Signaling Age-Why Would or Should One, After All?; III. Song Structures That Encode Age Information; IV. Patterns of Changes: The Big Shift Between Year 1 and 2?; A. No change after song crystallization? The zebra Finch; B. Changes between year 1 and 2? The Common Nightingale
  • C. Changes throughout Lifetime? The European StarlingV. Longitudinal Versus Cross-Sectional Comparisons; VI. How to Change Singing Styles: Possible Mechanisms; VII. A Synthesis; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4: Tonic Communication in the Antipredator Behavior of Ground Squirrels; I. Introduction; II. Multiple Time Frames of Behavioral Processes; III. Tonic Communication; IV. Tonic Processes in Ground Squirrel Antipredator Behavior; A. Tonic Vocalizing In Response to Mammalian Predators; B. Tonic Tail-Flagging by California Ground Squirrels to Deal with Snakes
  • C. Adaptive Variation in Emphasis of Tonic time FramesD. Another Temporal Dimension of Threat from Predators: Immediacy of Danger; V. Complexities in the Concept of Tonic Communication; A. Limitations on Effectiveness: Temporal Persistence of Signal Impact; B. Limitations on Effectiveness: The Roles of Habituation and Sensitization; C. Pulse-Rate Modulation and the ''Meaning'' of Intersignal Intervals; D. Who is the Target of Signaling?; E. How are Modulatory Communication and Tonic Communication Related?; VI. Future Directions: Dealing with Resistant Signal Targets; VII. Conclusion

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