Complex Worlds Simpler Nervous (9 results)
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Seller: Charles Berry, Bookseller, Lakeport, CA, U.S.A.Charles Berry, Bookseller
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Softcover in excellent, next-to-pristine condition: slightest handling, remainder mark on the bottom page edges, otherwise unmarked. 436 pages. [2 lbs]. Book.
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hardcover. Condition: Fine. LIKE NEW!!! Has a red or black remainder mark on bottom/exterior edge of pages.
Language: English
Published by Bradford Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 2004
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This copy has some light rubbing of the covers, wear at corners. Book plate verso of the front cover. Interior text is clean and tight in binding. Numerous illustrations, center section in full color. various (illustrator).
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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-library with the usual features. The interior is clean and tight. Binding is good. Cover shows light wear. 436 pages. Illustrated. Ex-Library.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The authors of Complex Worlds from Simpler Nervous Systems explain how animals with small, often minuscule, nervous systems--jumping spiders, bees, praying mantids, toads, and others--are not the simple reflex machines they were once thought to be. Because these animals live in the same world as…do much larger species, they must meet the same environmental challenges. They do so by constructing complex perceptual worlds within which they can weigh options, make decisions, integrate unique experiences, apply complex algorithms, and execute plans--and they must do this with thousands rather than the billions of neurons necessary for their larger counterparts. The authors of each chapter, leading neuroscientists and animal behaviorists, present their research in ways that allow the reader to understand this process from the animal's perspective. The first of the book's three parts, Creating Visual Worlds: Using Abstract Representations and Algorithms, examines the visual worlds of jumping spiders, honeybees, praying mantids, and toads. Part I, Enhancing the Visual Basics: Using Color and Polarization, explores color vision and light polarization perception in honeybees, butterflies, crayfish, mantis shrimps, and octopuses. The final part, Out of Sight: Creating Extravisual Worlds, examines the complex integration of visual and mechanosensory information in the cockroach and the unique auditory world of the unusual bladder grasshopper. All of these fascinating stories can be read both for what they teach us about the perceptual worlds of little animals, and for what they suggest about the general organizing principles of all central nervous systems, both simple and complex.
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Published by MIT Press (2004), Cambridge [MA], 2004
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Add to basketorig.wrappers Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. 16pp plates 23x15cm, xx,436,(16)pp, PAPERBACK. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG.
Published by MIT Press (2004), Cambridge [MA], 2004
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Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark/John Jackson Books, Svendborg, DenmarkExpatriate Bookshop of Denmark/John Jackson Books
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Add to basketorig.cloth Minor rubbing. Small ink-mark to bottom page-edge. VG. 16pp color plates 23x18cm, xx,436 pp Contains 11 papers. Includes: D.P. Harland & R.R. Jackson "Portia Perception: The Umwelt of an Araneophagic Jumping Spider"; S. Zhang & M. Srinivasan "Exploration of a Cognitive Capacity in Honeybees: Higher Functions Emerge fr…om a Small Brain"; K. Kral & F.R. Prete "In the Mind of a Hunter: The Visual World of the Praying Mantis"; J.-P. Ewert "Motion Perception Shapes the Visual World of Amphibians"; L. Chittka & H. Wells " Color Vision in Bees: Mechanisms, Ecology & Evolution"; K. Srikawa; et al. "Color Vision & Retinal Organization in Butterflies"; T. Hariyama " Seasonal Variation in the Visual World of Crayfish"; T.W. Cronin & J. marshall "The Unique Visual World of Mantis Shrimps"; I.G. Gleadall & N. Shashar "The Octopus's Garden: The Visual World of Cephalopods"; C. Comer &V. Leung "The Vigilance of the Hunted: Mechanosensory-Visual Integration in Insect Prey"; M.J. van Staaden; et al: "A Novel Approach to Hearing: The Acoustic World of Pneumorid Grasshoppers". Minor rubbing. Small ink-mark to bottom page-edge. VG.
