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  title info:
    title: Handbook of mammalian vocalization
    sub title: an integrative neuroscience approach
  name:
    name part: Brudzynski, Stefan.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: London
    publisher: Academic
    date issued: ©2010
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: The present proposal offers an outline of the planned major Handbook on Mammalian Vocalization, which fills a clear niche existing in the science book literature and on the market. The Handbook is designed as a broad and comprehensive, but well-balanced book, written from the neuroscience point of view in the broad sense of this term. Only a few issues will be reduced, which are extensively covered in other recent book publications. The Handbook is planned in a unique way and will not directly compete with other books on the market. This well-illustrated Handbook will pay a particular attention to systematically organized details but also to the explanatory style of the text and internal cohesiveness of the content, so the successive chapters will gradually develop a consistent story without losing the inherent complexity. Studies from many species will be included, however, rodents will dominate, as most of the brain investigations were done on these species. The leading idea of the Handbook is that vocalizations evolved as highly adaptive specific signals, which are selectively picked up by the brain. The brain serves as a receptor and behavioural amplifier. Brain systems will be described, which allow vocal signals rapidly changing the entire state of the organism and trigger vital biological responses, usually also with accompanying emission of vocalizations. Integrative brain functions leading to vocal outcome will be described, along with the vocalization generators and motor output to larynx and other supportive motor subsystems. The last sections of the Handbook will explain bioacoustic structure of vocalizations, present understanding of information coding, and origins of the complex semiotic/ semantic content of vocalizations in social mammals. The Handbook is thought as a major source of information for professionals from many fields, with neuroscience approach as a common denominator. The handbook is planned to provide consistent and unified understandin…
  table of contents: Section 1. Introduction -- Section 2. Evolution of the vocal system and vocalization -- Section 3. Diversity of vocalizations -- Section 4. Vocal signals as specific stimuli: selective perception of vocalization -- Section 5. Brain as an amplifier of vocal signals: effects of vocalization on the organism's state and behavior -- Section 6. Limbic generation of vocalization: Vocalization as an index of behavioural state -- Section 7. Hypothalamic/limbic integrative function for vocal/behavioural outcome -- Section 8. Midbrain and central pattern generators for vocalization -- Section 9. Integrative motor functions of the ambiguous, retroambiguus, and parabrachial nuclei -- Section 10. Sound production by larynx -- Section 11. Semiotic codes in vocalization: communication systems in animals.
  note: edited by Stefan M. Brudzynski.
  subject:
    topic: Mammals
    topic: Vocalization
  subject:
    topic: Mammals
    topic: Vocalization
  classification: QL765 .H36 2010
  classification: 599.1594
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Handbook of mammalian vocalization
    origin info:
      publisher: London : Academic, ©2010
    identifier: (OCoLC)426117602
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Handbook of behavioral neuroscience ; 19
  identifier: 9780123745934
  identifier: 0123745934
  identifier: 157517:157683 Elsevier Science & Technology
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    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 100225
    record change date: 20260326163924.9
    record identifier: in00005739416
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng