Biology of Communication
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer US : Imprint: Springer,
1980.
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| Colección: | Tertiary Level Biology
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| Acceso en línea: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3933-5 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.