Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 398 g
Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 398 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-850006-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Our understanding of the way in which animals know how, when, and where to orient and navigate around their environment has grown considerably over the last decade. Movements may be anything from small displacements in the immediate environment to the long-distance migration of salmon or swallows. How animals find their way around is both immensely variable and controversial - what cues they use and what senses are involved, how much they remember, to what extent they rely on instinctive information or learning, how the processing and storing of spatial information occurs in the brain. Discussion of landmark use, dead reckoning, spatial memory, and map-making ranges across disciplines, with different perspectives emerging from research in behaviour, ecology, psychology, and neurophysiology. Spatial Representation in Animals brings together cross-disciplinary research on navigation in several different species, in an accessible and exciting way. Individual authors, all eminent specialists within their fields, have been asked to present reviews of the material with which they are most familiar and to speculate about future directions in the field. This will be an ideal introductory text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of biology or psychology taking a course in animal navigation.
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Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Soziobiologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Tierpsychologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierökologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
Weitere Infos & Material
- 1: Ken Cheng and Marciel Spetch: Mechanisms of landmark use in mammals and birds
- 2: Jochen Zeil and Tom Collett: Places and landmarks: an arthropod perspective
- 3: Ariane Etienne, J Berlie, J Georgakopoulos and R Maurer: Role of dead reckoning in navigation
- 4: Verner P Bingham: Spatial representations and homing pigeon navigation
- 5: Victoria Braithwaite: Spatial memory, landmark use, and orientation in fish
- 6: Peter Berthold: Spatiotemporal aspects of avian long-distance migration
- 7: E Save, B Poucet, and Catherine Thinus-Blanc: Landmark use and the cognitive map in the rat
- 8: David Sherry and Sue Healy: Natural selection of spatial representation
