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The Design of animal communication / edited by Marc D. Hauser and Mark Konishi

Published
Cambridge, Ma : MIT Press, 1999.
Copyright Date
©1999
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 701 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Hauser, Marc D. and Konishi, Masakazu, 1933-2020
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Mechanisms of Communication -- Vocal Communication in Xenopus laevis / Darcy B. Kelley, Martha L. Tobias -- The Motor Basis of Vocal Performance in Songbirds / Roderick A. Suthers -- The Anatomy and Timing of Vocal Learning in Birds / Fernando Nottebohm -- The 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 -- The 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.
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ISBN
9780262275088 (electronic bk.)
0262275082 (electronic bk.)
0585252157 (electronic bk.)
9780585252155 (electronic bk.)
9780262082778
0262082772
0262082772 (hc ; alk. paper)
0262582236
9780262582230
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Note
"A Bradford book."
Based on a symposium which took place on March 22 and 23, 1997 at the University of California Davis.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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