Visual Structures and Integrated Functions.

Arbib, Michael A. / Ewert, Jörg-Peter:

ISBN 10: 3540542418 / ISBN 13: 9783540542414

Published by Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1991

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Gr.8° 439 pp., 174 ill.; Orig.-Broschur; 720g; [Englisch]; used [lgr=L] _ xXx_.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visual Structures and Integrated Functions.
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 3540542418
• ISBN 13: 9783540542414
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Gut
• Book Type: BUCH
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biowissenschaften

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Synopsis

This volume integrates theory and experiment to place the study of vision within the context of the action systems which use visual information. This theme is developed by stressing: (a) The importance of situating anyone part of the brain in the context of its interactions with other parts of the brain in subserving animal behavior. The title of this volume emphasizes that visual function is to be be viewed in the context of the integrated functions of the organism. (b) Both the intrinsic interest of frog and toad as animals in which to study the neural mechanisms of visuomotor coordination, and the importance of comparative studies with other organisms so that we may learn from an analysis of both similarities and differences. The present volume thus supplements our studies of frog and toad with papers on salamander, bird and reptile, turtle, rat, gerbil, rabbit, and monkey. (c) Perhaps most distinctively, the interaction between theory and experiment.