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The Neuroethology of Birdsong

Author : Jon T. Sakata
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030346838
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Neuroethology of Birdsong written by Jon T. Sakata and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vocal signals are central for social communication across a wide range of vertebrate species; consequently, it is critical to understand the mechanisms underlying the learning, control, and evolution of vocal communication. Songbirds are at the forefront of research into such neural mechanisms. Indeed, songbirds provide a particularly important model system for this endeavor because of the many parallels between birdsong and human speech. Specifically, (1) songbirds are one of the few vertebrate species that, like humans, learn their vocal signals during development, (2) the processes of song learning and control in songbirds shares many parallels with the process of speech acquisition in humans, and (3) there exist deep homologies between the circuits for the learning, control, and processing of vocal signals across songbirds and humans. In addition, because of the diversity of songbirds and song learning strategies, songbirds offer a powerful model system to use the comparative method to reveal mechanisms underlying the evolution of song learning and production. Taken together, research on songbirds can not only reveal general principles underlying vertebrate vocal communication but can also provide insight into potential mechanisms underlying the learning, control, and processing of speech. This volume will cover a range of topics in birdsong spanning multiple level of analysis. Chapters will be authored by the world’s leading experts on birdsong and will provide comprehensive reviews of the processes underlying song learning, of the neural circuits for song learning and control as well as for the extraction and processing of song information, of the selection pressures underlying song evolution, and of genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the learning and evolution of song. The primary goals of this volume are to provide comprehensive, integrative, and comparative perspectives on birdsong and to underscore the importance of birdsong to biomedical research, evolutionary biology, and behavioral, systems, and computational neuroscience.The target audience of this volume will be graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and established academics and neuroscientists who are interested in mechanisms of communication from an integrative and comparative perspective. The volume is intended to function as a high-profile and contemporary reference on current work related to the learning, control, processing, and evolution of birdsong. This volume will have broad appeal to comparative and sensory biologists, neurophysiologists, and behavioral, systems, and cognitive neuroscientists who attend meetings such as the Society for Neuroscience, the International Society for Neuroethology, and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Because of the relevance of birdsong research to understanding human speech, it is likely that the volume will also be of interest to speech researchers and clinicians researching communication, motor, and sensory processing disorders.

Advances in Vertebrate Neuroethology

Author : Jorg-Peter Ewert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468444123
Total Pages : 1212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Vertebrate Neuroethology by : Jorg-Peter Ewert

Download or read book Advances in Vertebrate Neuroethology written by Jorg-Peter Ewert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Advances in Vertebrate Neuroethology" held at the University of Kassel, Federal Republic of Germany in August 1981. During the last decade much progress has been made in understanding the neurophysiological bases of behavior in both vertebrates and invertebrates. The reason for this is that a number of new physiological, anatomical, and histochemical techniques have recently been developed for brain research which can now be combined with ethological methods for the analysis of animal behavior to form a new field of research known as "Neuroethology". The term Neuroethology was originally introduced by S.L.Brown and R.W.Hunsperger (1963) in connection with studies on the activation of agonistic behaviors by electrical brain stimulation in cats. Neuroethology was more closely defined by G.Hoyle (1970) in the context of a review on cellular mechanisms underlying behavior of invertebrates. Since the 6th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience held in Toronto in 1976, Neuroethology has become established as a session topic.

Targeting Neuro-Immuno-Vascular Interactions in the Brain and the Periphery

Author : Imola Wilhelm
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 288976172X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Targeting Neuro-Immuno-Vascular Interactions in the Brain and the Periphery written by Imola Wilhelm and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7

Author : Gerald Tesauro
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262201049
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7 written by Gerald Tesauro and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: November 28-December 1, 1994, Denver, Colorado NIPS is the longest running annual meeting devoted to Neural Information Processing Systems. Drawing on such disparate domains as neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, statistics, mathematics, engineering, and theoretical physics, the papers collected in the proceedings of NIPS7 reflect the enduring scientific and practical merit of a broad-based, inclusive approach to neural information processing. The primary focus remains the study of a wide variety of learning algorithms and architectures, for both supervised and unsupervised learning. The 139 contributions are divided into eight parts: Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Learning Theory, Algorithms and Architectures, Implementations, Speech and Signal Processing, Visual Processing, and Applications. Topics of special interest include the analysis of recurrent nets, connections to HMMs and the EM procedure, and reinforcement- learning algorithms and the relation to dynamic programming. On the theoretical front, progress is reported in the theory of generalization, regularization, combining multiple models, and active learning. Neuroscientific studies range from the large-scale systems such as visual cortex to single-cell electrotonic structure, and work in cognitive scientific is closely tied to underlying neural constraints. There are also many novel applications such as tokamak plasma control, Glove-Talk, and hand tracking, and a variety of hardware implementations, with particular focus on analog VLSI.

Primate Neuroethology

Author : Asif A. Ghazanfar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199929246
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Primate Neuroethology written by Asif A. Ghazanfar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is the first of its kind to bridge the epistemological gap between primate ethologists and primate neurobiologists. Leading experts in several fields review work ranging from primate foraging behavior to the neurophysiology of motor control, from vocal communication to the functions of the auditory cortex.

Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control and Emotion in Birds

Author : Andras Csillag
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832504930
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Book Synopsis Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control and Emotion in Birds by : Andras Csillag

Download or read book Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control and Emotion in Birds written by Andras Csillag and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Voices of Nature

Author : Nicolas Mathevon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691236763
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Voices of Nature written by Nicolas Mathevon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by sound What is the meaning of a bird’s song, a baboon’s bark, an owl’s hoot, or a dolphin’s clicks? In The Voices of Nature, Nicolas Mathevon explores the mysteries of animal sound. Putting readers in the middle of animal soundscapes that range from the steamy heat of the Amazon jungle to the icy terrain of the Arctic, Mathevon reveals the amazing variety of animal vocalizations. He describes how animals use sound to express emotion, to choose a mate, to trick others, to mark their territory, to call for help, and much more. What may seem like random chirps, squawks, and cries are actually signals that, like our human words, allow animals to carry on conversations with others. Mathevon explains how the science of bioacoustics works to decipher the ways animals make and hear sounds, what information is encoded in these sound signals, and what this information is used for in daily life. Drawing on these findings as well as observations in the wild, Mathevon describes, among many other things, how animals communicate with their offspring, how they exchange information despite ambient noise, how sound travels underwater, how birds and mammals learn to vocalize, and even how animals express emotion though sound. Finally, Mathevon asks if these vocalizations, complex and expressive as they are, amount to language. For readers who have wondered about the meaning behind a robin’s song or cicadas’ relentless “tchik-tchik-tchik,” this book offers a listening guide for the endlessly varied concert of nature.

Naturalistic neuroscience – towards a full cycle from lab to field

Author : Karen A. Mesce
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832533086
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Book Synopsis Naturalistic neuroscience – towards a full cycle from lab to field by : Karen A. Mesce

Download or read book Naturalistic neuroscience – towards a full cycle from lab to field written by Karen A. Mesce and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Neuroethological Studies Of Cognitive And Perceptual Processes

Author : Cynthia Moss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429978332
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Neuroethological Studies Of Cognitive And Perceptual Processes written by Cynthia Moss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do bats catch insects in the dark? How do bees learn which flowers to visit? How do food-storing birds remember where their hoards are? Questions like these are addressed by neuroethology, the branch of behavioral neuroscience concerned with analyzing the neural bases of naturally occurring behaviors. This book brings together thirteen chapters presenting findings on perceptual and cognitive processes in some of the most active areas of neuroethological research, including auditory localization by bats and owls, song perception and learning in birds, pitch processing by frogs and toads, imprinting in birds, spatial memory in birds, learning in bees and in Aplysia, and electroreception in fish. A variety of approaches are represented, such as field studies, psychophysical tests, electrophysiological experiments, lesion studies, comparative neuroanatomy, and studies of development. Each chapter gives an up-to-date overview of a particular author’s research and places it within the broader context of issues about animal perception and cognition. The book as a whole exemplifies how studying species and their particular specializations can inform general issues in psychology, ethology, and neuro-science.

Nature's Music

Author : Peter R. Marler
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080473555
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Nature's Music written by Peter R. Marler and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds. Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of organisms. It is a model for the study of a wide variety of animal behaviour systems, ecological, evolutionary and neurobiological. Bird song sits at the intersection of breeding, social and cognitive behaviour and ecology. As such interest in this book will extend far beyond the purely ornithological - to behavioural ecologists psychologists and neurobiologists of all kinds.* The scoop on local dialects in birdsong* How birdsongs are used for fighting and flirting* The writers are all international authorities on their subject

Why Men Won't Ask for Directions

Author : Richard C. Francis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140085069X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Why Men Won't Ask for Directions written by Richard C. Francis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the evolutionary biology that has grabbed headlines in recent years has sprung from the efforts of sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists to explain sexual features and behavior--even differences between how men and women think--as evolutionary adaptations. They have looked to the forces of natural selection to explain everything from the mimicry of male mockingbirds to female orgasms among humans. In this controversial book, Richard Francis argues that the utility of this approach is greatly exaggerated. He proposes instead a powerful alternative rooted in the latest findings in evolutionary biology as well as research on the workings of our brains, genes, and hormones. Exploring various sexual phenomena, Francis exposes fundamental defects in sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, which he traces to their misguided emphasis on "why" questions at the expense of "how" questions. Francis contends that this preoccupation with "why" questions (such as, "Why won't men ask for directions"?) results in a paranoiac mindset and distorted evolutionary explanations. His alternative framework entails a broader conception of what constitutes an evolutionary explanation, one in which both evolutionary history, as embodied in the tree of life, and developmental processes are brought to the foreground. This alternative framework is also better grounded in basic biology. Deeply learned, consistently persuasive, and always engaging, this book is a welcome antidote to simplistic sociobiological exegeses of animal and human behavior.

The Origins of Grammar

Author : James R. Hurford
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191619930
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Grammar written by James R. Hurford and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he looked at the evolutionary origins of meaning, ending as our distant ancestors were about to step over the brink to modern language. He now considers how that step might have been taken and the consequences it undoubtedly had. The capacity for language lets human beings formulate and express an unlimited range of propositions about real or fictitious worlds. It allows them to communicate these propositions, often overlaid with layers of nuance and irony, to other humans who can then interpret and respond to them. These processes take place at breakneck speed. Using a language means learning a vast number of arbitrary connections between forms and meanings and rules on how to manipulate them, both of which a normal human child can do in its first few years of life. James Hurford looks at how this miracle came about. The book is divided into three parts. In the first the author surveys the syntactic structures evident in the communicative behaviour of animals, such as birds and whales, and discusses how vocabularies of learned symbols could have evolved and the effects this had on human thought. In the second he considers how far the evolution of grammar depended on biological or cultural factors. In the third and final part he describes the probable route by which the human language faculty and languages evolved from simple beginnings to their present complex state.

Plasticity of the Auditory System

Author : Thomas N. Parks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475742193
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Plasticity of the Auditory System written by Thomas N. Parks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The auditory system has a remarkable ability to adjust to an ever-changing environment. The six review chapters that comprise Plasticity of the Central Auditory System cover a spectrum of issues concerning this ability to adapt, defined by the widely applicable term "plasticity". With chapters focusing on the development of the cochlear nucleus, the mammalian superior olivary complex, plasticity in binaural hearing, plasticity in the auditory cortex, neural plasticity in bird songs, and plasticity in the insect auditory system, this volume represents much of the most current research in this field. The volume is thorough enough to stand alone, but is closely related a previous SHAR volume, Development of the Auditory System (Volume 9) by Rubel, Popper, and Fay. The book fully addresses the difficulties, challenges, and complexities of this topic as it applies to the auditory development of a wide variety of species.

Animal Cognition in Nature

Author : Russell P. Balda
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 008052723X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Animal Cognition in Nature written by Russell P. Balda and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1998-09-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the editors bring together results from studies on all kinds of animals to show how thinking on many behaviors as truly cognitive processes can help us to understand the biology involved. Taking ideas and observations from the while range of research into animal behavior leads to unexpected and stimulating ideas. A space is created where the work of field ecologists, evolutionary ecologists and experimental psychologists can interact and contribute to a greater understanding of complex animal behavior, and to the development of a new and coherent field of study.

Behaviour and Neurodynamics for Auditory Communication

Author : Jagmeet Kanwal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521829182
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Behaviour and Neurodynamics for Auditory Communication written by Jagmeet Kanwal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how arousal, motivation, emotion and behavioral contexts are vocally expressed and how important sound attributes are recognized and perceived.

The Simian Tongue

Author : Gregory Radick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226702243
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Simian Tongue written by Gregory Radick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet for most of the next century, the simian tongue and the means for its study existed at the scientific periphery.

Advances in the Study of Behavior

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080524281
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Advances in the Study of Behavior written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2000-01-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 29 continues to serve scientists across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Focusing on new theories and research developments with respect to behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, and comparative psychology, these volumes foster cooperation and communications in these dense fields. The aim of Advances in the Study of Behavior remains as it has been since the series began: to serve the increasing number of scientists who are engaged in the study of animal behavior by presenting their theoretical ideas and research to their colleagues and to those in neighboring fields. We hope that the series will continue its "contribution to the development of the field," as its intended role was phrased in the Preface to the first volume in 1965. Since that time, traditional areas of animal behavior have achieved new vigor by the links they have formed with related fields and by the closer relationship that now exists between those studying animal and human subjects.