Spatial Representation in Animals (Paperback)

Healy

ISBN 10: 0198500068 / ISBN 13: 9780198500063

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998

About this Item

Paperback. Our understanding of the way in which animals know how, when, and where to orient and navigate around their environment has grown considerably over the last decade. Movements may be anything from small displacements in the immediate environment to the long-distance migration of salmon or swallows. How animals find their way around is both immensely variable and controversial - what cues they use and what senses are involved, how much they remember, to what extentthey rely on instinctive information or learning, how the processing and storing of spatial information occurs in the brain. Discussion of landmark use, dead reckoning, spatial memory, and map-makingranges across disciplines, with different perspectives emerging from research in behaviour, ecology, psychology, and neurophysiology. Spatial Representation in Animals brings together cross-disciplinary research on navigation in several different species, in an accessible and exciting way. Individual authors, all eminent specialists within their fields, have been asked to present reviews of the material with which they are most familiar and to speculate about future directions in thefield. This will be an ideal introductory text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of biology or psychology taking a course in animal navigation. Our understanding of the way in which animals know how, when, and where to orient and navigate around their environment has grown considerably over the last decade. In this text, authors present reviews and speculate about future directions in the field. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spatial Representation in Animals (Paperback)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198500068
• ISBN 13: 9780198500063
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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Spatial Representation in Animals brings together cross-disciplinary research on animal navigation in several different species, in an accessible and exciting way. Chapters written by eminent scientists in animal behavior, ecology, psychology, and neurophysiology, cover a wide range of topics including: landmark use; the role of dead reckoning; spatial memory; long-distance migration; and map-making; among others. The authors review research in their respective fields and speculate about future directions in the field. Researchers and students in biology and psychology, as well as all those interested in animal navigation, will find this an important resource.

About the Author

Susan Healy is at University of Newcastle.