Nerve Cells and Animal Behaviour

ISBN: 9780521728485 出版年：2010 页码：294 Simmons Young Cambridge University Press

1. Organisation of animal behaviour and of brains - feeding in star-nose moles and courtship in fruit flies 2. Signals in nerve cells - reflexes in mammals and insects 3. Neuronal mechanisms for releasing behaviour - predator and prey: toad and cockroach 4. Neuronal pathways for behaviour - startle behaviours and giant neurons in crayfish and fish 5. Eyes and vision - sensory filtering and course control in insects 6. Sensory maps - hunting by owls and bats 7. Programmes for movement - how nervous systems generate and control rhythmic movements 8. Changes in nerve cells and behaviour - learning in bees and rats swarming in locusts 9. Nerve cells and animal signalling - songs of crickets, electric fish and birds.