Behavioral Neurobiology
Subtitle: The Cellular Organization of Natural Behavior
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Sinauer Associates
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780878930845
Subjects: Animal behaviour; Cellular biology; Neurobiological theory; Neurosciences; Psychology; Neuropsychology; Psychobiology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Neurology - General; Neuroscience; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Comparative neurobiology
Description: Following an introductory chapter on neurons as the building blocks of behavior, the text is organized around in-depth case studies of individual animals which examine neural solutions that have evolved in animals to solve problems encountered in their particular environmental niches. A sampling of subjects: echolocation in bats, escape behavior in crayfish, associative learning in honeybees, and spatial navigation in rats. Carew (neurobiology and behavior, U. of California, Irvine) developed the text over 17 years of teaching the cellular basis of behavior at Yale University.