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Nerve cells and animal behaviour /
"An extensively revised third edition of this introduction to neuroethology - the neuronal basis of animal behaviour - for zoology, biology and psychology undergraduate students. The book focuses on the roles of individual nerve cells in behaviour, from simple startle responses to complex behav...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Organisation of animal behaviour and of brains : feeding in star-nose moles and courtship in fruit flies
- 2. Signals in nerve cells : reflexes in mammals and insects
- 3. Neuronal mechanisms for releasing behaviour : predator and prey
- toad and cockroach
- 4. Neuronal pathways for behaviour : startle behaviours and giant neurons in crayfish and fish
- 5. Eyes and vision : sensory filtering and course control in insects
- 6. Sensory maps : hunting by owls and bats
- 7. Programmes for movement : how nervous systems generate and control rhythmic movements
- 8. Changes in nerve cells and behaviour : learning in bees and rats ; swarming in locusts
- 9. Nerve cells and animal signalling : songs of crickets, electric fish and birds.