Overview
- Offers fascinating insights into the psychological mechanisms for signaling and receiving found across a diversity of species
- Provides the basis for understanding animal signals and communication
- Stimulates additional research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Animal Signals and Communication (ANISIGCOM, volume 5)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book analyzes the psychological mechanisms critical to animal communication. The topics covered range from single neurons to broad-scale phylogenetic patterns, shedding new light on the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processes that underlie the communicative behaviors of signalers and receivers alike. In so doing, the contributing authors collectively integrate research questions and methods from behavioral ecology, cognitive ethology, comparative psychology, evolutionary biology, sensory ecology, and neuroscience. No less broad is the volume’s taxonomic coverage, which spans bees to blackbirds to baboons. The ultimate goal of the book is to stimulate additional research into the diversity and evolution of the psychological mechanisms that make animal communication possible.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mark A. Bee
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
email: mbee@umn.edu, phone: ++1-612-624-6749
Cory T. Miller
Department of Psychology, Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
email: corymiller@ucsd.edu, phone: ++1-858-361-9191
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychological Mechanisms in Animal Communication
Editors: Mark A. Bee, Cory T. Miller
Series Title: Animal Signals and Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48690-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48688-8Published: 02 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83994-3Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48690-1Published: 26 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2197-7305
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7313
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 320
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Psychology, Neurobiology, Evolutionary Biology