Handbook of mammalian vocalization : an integrative neuroscience approach /

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 v...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Brudzynski, Stefan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Academic, ©2010.
Series:Handbook of behavioral neuroscience ; 19.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.