Nerve cells and animal behaviour /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Simmons, Peter (Peter John), 1952-
Other Authors:	Young, David, 1942 February 25-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Edition:	Second edition.
Subjects:	Neurophysiology. Behavior, Animal > physiology. Neurobiology.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Nervous systems and the study of behaviour
Scope and limitations of neuroethology
Neural implications of ethological results
Sign stimuli in amphibians
Neuroethology of a releasing mechanism
Control theory and nervous systems
Nerve cells
Basic organisation of nerve cells
Neuron physiology and action potentials
Synapses
Integration of postsynaptic potentials
Comparison of spikes and graded potentials
Additional mechanisms in integration
Giant neurons and escape behaviour
Introduction
Giant neurons and the crayfish tail flip
The lateral giant interneuron: input and output
The decision to initiate startle behaviour
Executive functions of the lateral giant neuron
Summary of pathways in crayfish startle behaviour
Mauthner neurons and the teleost fast start
Excitation and inhibition in the Mauthner neuron
Outputs and executive functions of the Mauthner neuron
The startle reaction of a cockroach
Capturing sensory information
Introduction
Basic receptor mechanisms: the campaniform organ
Summary of basic mechanisms
Essential properties of eyes
Design features of eyes
Photoreceptors and the receptor potential
Stimulus filtering: vision and motion detection
Introduction
The insect visual system
Neuronal coding in the insect lamina
Optomotor neurons in flies
Figure-ground neurons of the lobula plate
A mechanism for directional selectivity
Summary of fly optomotor neurons
Collision warning neurons in the locust
Hearing and hunting: sensory maps
Introduction
Prey localisation by hearing in owls
Auditory interneurons and sound localisation
Synthesising a neuronal map of auditory space
The echolocation sounds of bats
Interception of flying prey by bats
The auditory system and echolocation
Auditory specialisations for echo ranging
Auditory specialisations for Doppler shift analysis
Programs for movement
Introduction
Locusts and their flight
The flight engine
The flight program
Generation of the flight rhythm
Interneurons of the flight generator
Proprioceptors and the flight motor pattern
Steering and initiating flight
Overall view of locust flight
Triggering and maintaining escape swimming in Tritonia
Swimming by young Xenopus tadpoles
Circuit reconfiguration in the stomatogastric ganglion of the lobster
Circuits of nerve cells and behaviour
Neuronal activity during different behaviours in Aplysia
Optical monitoring of neuronal activity
Local bending reflexes in the leech
Modelling a network of neurons
Local reflex movements of a locust's leg
Local spiking interneurons
Non-spiking interneurons
Organisation of neurons that control reflex movements
Nerve cells and changes in behaviour
Introduction
Growth and metamorphosis in insects
Ecdysis in a hawk moth
Remodelling neurons during metamorphosis
Associative learning and the proboscis extension reflex in honey bees
Neuronal pathways and conditioning
The role of an identified neuron in conditioning
Bird song and its production
The development of song
Neural centres for hearing and singing
Development of song nuclei.