Biology of Communication

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Lewis, D. Brian. (Autor), Gower, D. Michael. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1980.
Colección:Tertiary Level Biology
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Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3933-5
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505 0 |a 1. Hat is Communication? -- Problems Of Definition -- The Functions Of Communication -- Exploitation Of Existing Communication Systems -- 2. Sensory Systems -- The Nature of the Stimulus and the Receptor -- Principles And Constraints In Sense Organ Design -- The Coding of Basic Stimulus Parameters -- The Coding Of Complex Stimulus Parameters -- Conclusions -- 3. External Stimuli, Internal Factors and Behaviour -- Sign Stimuli and the Innate Releasing Mechanism -- Intervening Variables in Behaviour -- Motivational Gating -- Conclusions -- 4. Integration and the Control of Behaviour -- Mechanisms of Filtration and Integration -- Examples Of Central Sensory Integration -- The Motor System And Behaviour -- Conclusions -- 5. Signals and Their Evolution -- Chemical Signals and Their Evolution -- Acoustic Signals -- Visual Signals and Their Evolution -- Origins and Evolution of Vertebrate Signals -- Numbers of Displays -- Conclusions -- 6. The Shaping of Communication Sequences, Courtship -- Butterfly Courtship -- Fish Courtship -- Courtship in the Newt, the Problem of the Spermatophore -- Courtship in Birds -- Conclusions -- 7. Some Methods of Analysing Sequences of Behaviour -- Intra-Individual Transition Matrices -- Inter-Individual Matrices -- Information Analysis -- Multivariate Analysis. 
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