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Neuroethological studies of cognitive and perceptual processes
Introduction: neuroethology, perception, and cognition -- Specializations in honey bee learning -- Detecting associations in Pavlovian conditioning and instrumental learning in vertebrates and in invertebrates -- Neuroethological studies on how birds discriminate song -- Ecological specialization in the avian brain -- The perceptual foundations of vocal learning in budgerigars -- How birds use frequency to recognize their songs -- Development of perceptual mechanisms in birds: predispositions and imprinting -- Neural codes for "pitch" processing in a unique vertebrate auditory system -- Recognition of visual signals: eyes specialize -- Perception along the axis of target range in the echolocating bat -- Converging approaches to determining sound localization mechanisms in the big brown bat -- Sound localization from binaural cues by the barn owl auditory system.
edited by Cynthia F. Moss and Sara J. Shettleworth.
Includes bibliographical references and index.