Animal behavior : its evolutionary and neurological basis /
Dethier V.G.
- 2nd edition
- New Jersey : Prentice Hall, c1964
- viii, 118 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
CONTENTS
Introduction one Irritability and conduction Acellular conducting systems, Multicellular conducting systems The neuron The nerve impulse synapses Receptors two Simple nervous systems Net sea cucumber nervous systems centralization in jellyfish Types of behavior Three Complex radial nervous systems The starfish nervous systems Echinoderm behavior summery Four Bilateral nervous systems Ganglia Behavior in simple ganglionated invertebrates Hierarchy of control and cephalization Integration and compartmentalization cephalopods( squids, cuttlefish, octopuses) crustacea insects Five The vertebrates nervous systems The spinal cord The brain Functional organization of the vertebrate nervous systems six Stereotyped behavior Taxes reflexes instinctive behavior Motivated behavior summery Seven Learning Imprinting Habituation Classical conditioning Instrumental conditioning Trial and error learning Phylogeny of learning neural mechanisms of learning Summery Eight Complex processes Reasoning brain function i problem solution Social organization Summery