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A review of behavioural neurosciences in an ecological context, covering both theories and experimental procedures. Attention is placed on the hippocampus and its relation to spatial learning in different species, such as food-storing birds, homing pigeons, kangaroo rats and laboratory rodents. Various methodological chapters deal with measurements of behavioural events and telemetry, exploiting the perspectives of miniaturization of data loggers.

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Author:   E. Alleva ,  Aldo Fasolo ,  Hans-Peter Lipp ,  Lynn Nadel
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1995 ed.
Volume:   82
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.900kg
ISBN:  

9780792335702

ISBN 10:   0792335708
Pages:   466
Publication Date:   31 July 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

I: Brain, Behaviour, Ontogeny and Evolution.- New Paths Towards Old Dreams: Microphrenology: Or the study of intact brains in intact worlds.- On Telling Growth from Parcellation in Brain Evolution.- Neural Darwinism in the Olfactory System.- Neural Darwinism in the Olfactory System.- Through the Looking-Glass of Cephalopod Colour Patterns: A skin-diver’s guide to the Octopus brain.- Discussion Group: Comparative Brain Morphology.- II: Bird Studies.- Lateralization in Memory and the Avian Hippocampus in Food-Storing Birds.- Comparative Studies of Memory in Food Storing Birds: From the field to the Skinner box.- Temporal and Functional Relationship of Brain Maturation and Behavioural Development: A study on glial-neuronal dialogue and its relation to the emergence of full song in the canary.- Homing Pigeons, Hippocampus and Spatial Cognition.- Recent Experiments on Pigeon Navigation.- Discussion Group: Behavioural Brain Research in Naturalistic and Semi-Naturalistic Settings.- III: Hippocampus — A Hot Issue.- The Psychobiology of Spatial Behavior: The Hippocampal Formation and Spatial Mapping.- Variations in the Morphology of the Septo-Hippocampal Complex and Maze Learning in Rodents: Correlation Between Morphology and Behaviour.- Dissociation Between Basic Components of Spatial Memory In Rats.- The Ecology of Spatial Cognition: Adaptive patterns of space use and hippocampal size in wild rodents.- Natural Selection on Hippocampal Circuitry Underlying Exploratory Behaviour in Mice: Quantitative-Genetic Analysis.- Stereological Analysis of the Hippocampal Formation of Male and Female Hypothyroid Rats.- Discussion Group: Hippocampus.- IV: Behavioural Brain Research, Methodology and Telemetry.- Evaluating the Social Behaviour of Rodents: Laboratory, Semi-Naturalistic andNaturalistic Approaches.- Animal Reasoning Ability in L.V. Krushinsky’S Experiments.- Social Behaviour and Telemetric Assessment of Thermoregulation in Hibernating Marmots.- Understanding Primate Behaviour: A Cooperative Effort of Field and Laboratory Research.- Methodological and Ethical Considerations on the Use of Telemetry in the Study of Behavioural Responses of Monkeys to Environmental Challenges.- Discussion Group: The Study of Behaviour in Naturalistic, Semi-Naturalistic and Laboratory Environments.- Poster Abstracts Of Participants.

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