Overview
- A comparative view of electroreception.
- Looks at the evolution of the electrosensory and electromotor systems in different organisms.
- Answers basic questions about neuronal information processing and behavior.
Part of the book series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (SHAR, volume 70)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
A fundamental goal of neuroscience is to understand how the nervous system extracts biologically relevant information from the natural environment and how it uses that information to guide and coordinate behavior necessary for reproduction and survival. The electrosensory systems of weakly electric teleost fishes and those of nonteleost fishes are attractive systems for addressing basic questions about neuronal information processing and its relationship to natural behavior. Comparative approaches in these fishes have led to the identification of fundamental mechanisms that have shaped the adaptive evolution of sensory systems across animal taxa. Understanding how sensory systems encode and integrate information about the natural world has far reaching implications for advancing our knowledge in the basic biomedical sciences and in understanding how the nervous system has evolved to control behavior.
The primary goal of this book is to provide a comparative perspectiveon the topic of electroreception and review some of the fundamental insights gained from studies of electrosensory and electromotor systems. Although totally independent, this book follows from volume 21 in the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research series, Electroreception (Bullock, T. H., Hopkins, C. D., Popper, A. N., and Fay, R. R., 2005, Springer-Verlag, New York).
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bruce A. Carlson is Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Joseph A. Sisneros is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, Seattle
Arthur N. Popper is Professor Emeritus and research professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park
Richard R. Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Electroreception: Fundamental Insights from Comparative Approaches
Editors: Bruce A. Carlson, Joseph A. Sisneros, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay
Series Title: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29105-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29104-4Published: 22 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29105-1Published: 13 November 2019
Series ISSN: 0947-2657
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1897
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 367
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 77 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences