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Perception and Motor Control in Birds

An Ecological Approach

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Mark N. O. Davies

    1. Department of Psychology, University College London, London, UK

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  2. Patrick R. Green

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Introduction to Section I

    • Mark N. O. Davies, Patrick R. Green
    Pages 1-3

  3. Form and Function in the Optical Structure of Bird Eyes

    • G. R. Martin
    Pages 5-34

  4. Functional Accommodation in Birds

    • F. Schaeffel
    Pages 35-53

  5. Binocular Depth Perception

    • S. A. McFadden
    Pages 54-73

  6. Sound Cues to Distance: The Perception of Range

    • P. K. McGregor
    Pages 74-94

  7. Avian Orientation: Multiple Sensory Cues and the Advantage of Redundancy

    • R. Wiltschko, W. Wiltschko
    Pages 95-119

  8. Introduction to Section II

    • Mark N. O. Davies, Patrick R. Green
    Pages 121-123

  9. Neuroembryology of Motor Behaviour in Birds

    • A. Bekoff
    Pages 125-134

  10. Pre- and Postnatal Development of Wing-Flapping and Flight in Birds: Embryological, Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives

    • R. R. Provine
    Pages 135-159

  11. Development of Prehensile Feeding in Ring Doves (Streptopelia risoria): Learning Under Organismic and Task Constraints

    • J. D. Deich, P. D. Balsam
    Pages 160-181

  12. Ingestive Behaviour and the Sensorimotor Control of the Jaw

    • H. P. Zeigler, R. Bermejo, R. Bout
    Pages 182-200

  13. Motor Organization of the Avian Head-Neck System

    • G. Zweers, R. Bout, J. Heidweiller
    Pages 201-221

  14. Introduction to Section III

    • Mark N. O. Davies, Patrick R. Green
    Pages 223-225

  15. Course Control During Flight

    • D. Bilo
    Pages 227-247

  16. The Analysis of Motion in the Visual Systems of Birds

    • B. J. Frost, D. R. Wylie, Y. C. Wang
    Pages 248-269

  17. An Eye or Ear for Flying

    • D. N. Lee
    Pages 270-291

  18. Directional Hearing in Owls: Neurobiology, Behaviour and Evolution

    • S. F. Volman
    Pages 292-314

  19. Tuning of Visuomotor Coordination During Prey Capture in Water Birds

    • G. Katzir
    Pages 315-338

  20. Multiple Sources of Depth Information: An Ecological Approach

    • M. N. O. Davies, P. R. Green
    Pages 339-356
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About this book

Being both broad - perception and motor organization - and narrow - just onegroup of animals - at the same time, this book presents a new unified framework for understanding perceptuomotor organization, stressing the importance of an ecological perspective. Section I reviews recent research on a variety of sensory and perceptual processes in birds, which all involve subtle analyses of the relationships between species' perceptual mechanisms and their ecology and behaviour. Section II describes the variousresearch approaches - behavioural, neurophysiological, anatomical and comparative - all dealing with the common problem of understanding how the activities of large numbers of muscles are coordinated to generate adaptive behaviour. Section III is concerned with a range of approaches to analyzing the links between perceptual and motor processes, through cybernetic modelling, neurophysiological analysis, and behavioural methods.

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"I cannot imagine a reader who will not find something completely new: some technique of which they have not heard, some recent discovery in a field with which they are relatively unfamiliar...even though each chapter provides its own useful entre into one of a wide range of research fields, it is their bringing together that provides the real inspiration." - IBIS

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, University College London, London, UK

    Mark N. O. Davies

  • Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Patrick R. Green

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Perception and Motor Control in Birds

  • Book Subtitle: An Ecological Approach

  • Editors: Mark N. O. Davies, Patrick R. Green

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75869-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-75871-3Published: 14 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-75869-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 364

  • Topics: Zoology, Neurosciences, Ecology

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