Sensory Processing in Aquatic Environments
Editors: Collin, Shaun P., Marshall, N.Justin (Eds.)
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Research on sensory processing or the way animals see, hear, smell, taste, feel and electrically and magnetically sense their environment has advanced a great deal over the last fifteen years. This book discusses the most important themes that have emerged from recent research and provides a summary of likely future directions.
The book starts with two sections on the detection of sensory signals over long and short ranges by aquatic animals, covering the topics of navigation, communication, and finding food and other localized sources. The next section, the co-evolution of signal and sense, deals with how animals decide whether the source is prey, predator or mate by utilizing receptors that have evolved to take full advantage of the acoustical properties of the signal. Organisms living in the deep-sea environment have also received a lot of recent attention, so the next section deals with visual adaptations to limited light environments where sunlight is replaced by bioluminescence and the visual system has undergone changes to optimize light capture and sensitivity. The last section on central co-ordination of sensory systems covers how signals are processed and filtered for use by the animal.
This book will be essential reading for all researchers and graduate students interested in sensory systems.
- Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Sound Detection Mechanisms and Capabilities of Teleost Fishes
Pages 3-38
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Trails in Open Waters: Sensory Cues in Salmon Migration
Pages 39-52
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Detection and Use of the Earth’s Magnetic Field by Aquatic Vertebrates
Pages 53-74
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Physical Principles of Electric, Magnetic, and Near-Field Acoustic Orientation
Pages 77-91
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Active Electrolocation and Its Neural Processing in Mormyrid Electric Fishes
Pages 92-107
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Sensory Processing in Aquatic Environments
- Editors
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- Shaun P. Collin
- N.Justin Marshall
- Copyright
- 2003
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-387-22628-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/b97656
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-387-95527-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4419-3039-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 446
- Number of Illustrations
- 112 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
- Topics
