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1 online resource (xi, 701 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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"A Bradford book." |
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Based on a symposium which took place on March 22 and 23, 1997 at the University of California Davis. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mechanisms of Communication -- Vocal Communication in Xenopus laevis / Darcy B. Kelley, Martha L. Tobias -- Motor Basis of Vocal Performance in Songbirds / Roderick A. Suthers -- Anatomy and Timing of Vocal Learning in Birds / Fernando Nottebohm -- Dance Language of Honeybees: Recent Findings and Problems / Axel Michelsen -- Processing Species-specific Calls by Combination-sensitive Neurons in an Echolocating Bat / Jagmeet S. Kanwal -- A Cellular Basis for Reading Minds from Faces and Actions / David I. Perrett -- Neural Systems for Recognizing Emotions in Humans / Ralph Adolphs -- Neuroendocrine Basis of Seasonal Changes in Vocal Behavior among Songbirds / Gregory F. Ball -- Testosterone, Aggression, and Communication: Ecological Bases of Endocrine Phenomena / John C. Wingfield, Jerry D. Jacobs, Kiran Soma, Donna L. Maney, Kathleen Hunt, Deborah Wisti-Peterson, Simone Meddle, Marilyn Ramenofsky, Kimberly Sullivan -- Ontogeny of Communication -- On Innateness: Are Sparrow Songs "Learned" or "Innate"? / Peter Marler -- Making Ecological Sense of Song Development by Songbirds / Donald E. Kroodsma -- Song- and Order-seective Auditory Responses Emerge in Neurons of the Songbird Anterior Forebrain during Vocal Learning / Allison J. Doupe, Michele M. Solis -- Genetics of Canary Song Learning: Innate Mechanisms and Other Neurobiological Considerations / Paul C. Mundinger -- Production, Usage, and Response in Nonhuman Primate Vocal Development / Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney. |
| Summary |
When animals, including humans, communicate, they convey information and express their perceptions of the world. Because different organisms are able to produce and perceive different signals, the animal world contains a diversity of communication systems. Based on the approach laid out in the 1950s by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen, this book looks at animal communication from the four perspectives of mechanisms, ontogeny, function, and phylogeny. The book's great strength is its broad comparative perspective, which enables the reader to appreciate the diversity of solutions to particular problems of signal design and perception. For example, although the neural circuitry underlying the production of acoustic signals is different in frogs, songbirds, bats, and humans, each involves a set of dedicated pathways designed to solve particular problems of communicative efficiency. Such comparative findings form the basis of a conceptual framework for understanding the mechanisms underlying communication systems and their evolution. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Animal communication -- Congresses.
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Animal communication. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Congressen (vorm)
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Hauser, Marc D.
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Konishi, Masakazu, 1933-2020.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Design of animal communication. Cambridge, Ma. : MIT Press, 1999 0262082772 (DLC) 99013959 (OCoLC)40762630 |
| ISBN |
9780262275088 (electronic book) |
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0262275082 (electronic book) |
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0585252157 (electronic book) |
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9780585252155 (electronic book) |
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9780262082778 |
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0262082772 |
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0262082772 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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0262582236 |
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9780262582230 |
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