Animal behavior : its evolutionary and neurological basis / Dethier V.G.
Publication details: New Jersey : Prentice Hall, c1964Edition: 2nd editionDescription: viii, 118 p. : ill ; 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 20 591.5 DET
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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
Includes references and index
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