| Title |
Complex worlds from simpler nervous systems / edited by Frederick R. Prete. |
| OCLC |
57560073 |
| ISBN |
1417574704 (electronic bk.) |
| Publisher |
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004] |
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©2004 |
| Description |
xx, 436 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Cognition in animals.
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Learning in animals.
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Animal behavior.
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Medical
Subject heading/s |
Visual Perception -- physiology.
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Behavior, Animal.
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Vision, Ocular -- physiology.
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Other
Genre heading/s |
Electronic books.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-421) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Portia perceptions : the umwelt of an araneophagic jumping spider / Duane P. Harland, Robert R. Jackson -- Exploration of cognitive capacity in honeybees : higher functions emerge from a small brain / Shaowu Zhang, Mandyam Srinivasan -- In the mind of a hunter : the visual world of the praying mantis / Karl Kral, Frederick R. Prete -- Motion perception shapes the visual world of amphibians / Jörg-Peter Ewert -- Color vision in bees : mechanisms, ecology, and evolution / Lars Chittka, Harrington Wells -- Color vision and retinal organization in butterflies / Kentaro Arikawa, Michiyo Kinoshita, Doekele G. Stavenga -- Seasonal variation in the visual world of crayfish / Takahiko Hariyama -- The unique visual world of mantis shrimps / Thomas W. Cronin, Justin Marshall -- The octopus's garden : the visual world of cephalopods / Ian G. Gleadall, Nadav Shashar -- The vigilance of the hunted : mechanosensory-visual integration in insect prey / Christopher Comer, Vicky Leung -- A novel approach to hearing : the acoustic world of pneumorid grasshoppers / Moira J. van Staaden, Heiner Romer, Vanessa C. K. Couldridge. |
| Reproduction note |
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. |
| General note |
"A Bradford book." |
| Restrictions |
Single user license access. |
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