Animal Models of Human Emotion and Cognition
Published on 1. August 1999
Book
Hardback
341 pages
978-1-55798-583-5 (ISBN)
Description
Animal research has contributed enormously to our current knowledge of human physiology and basic brain function. But in recent years, concerns have been raised about the usefulness and validity of animal research aimed at illuminating our own behaviour. This volume argues that animal studies do indeed provide valuable insights into our behaviours and presents studies illustrating how researchers are trying to better understand human emotion, development and cognition. Contributors from both the United States and Europe shed new light on such research topics as anxiety and schizophrenia; sensory development, self-recognition and perception; amnesia, memory disorders and hemispheric specialization; and various aspects of aggression. This volume should be of interest to experimental psychologists as well as to general psychologists who wish to better understand the applications of animal studies.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55798-583-5 (9781557985835)
Copyright in bibliographic data is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or its licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Content
On the Nature of Animal Models of Human Behavioural Dysfunction, J. Bruce Overmier; Justifying the Research Agenda, Lewis Petrinovich; On the Affective Nature of "Human Nature" - a Neurobiologist's Reflections, Pierre Karli; Rodent "Models" of Human Neuroses and Psychoses, Paul Frederic Brian and Lynne Marrow; The Mouse Defence Test Battery - an Experimental Model of Different Emotional States, Guy Griedel and David J. Sanger; Latent Inhibition in Animals as a Model of Acute Schizophrenia - a Re-Analysis, Phillippe Oberling et al; Startle Response Measure of Information Processing in Animals - Relevance to Schizophrenia, Mark E. Geyer et al; Sensory and Integrative Development in the Human Foetus and Perinate - the Usefulness of Animal Models, Benoist Schaal et al; What Has the Psychology of Human Perception Learned from Animal Studies?, Claude Bonnet and Christian Wehrhahn; An Animal Model for a Physiological Interpretation of Human Bisexuality, Hames R. Anderson and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr.; Animal Models of Medial Temporal Lobe Amnesia - the Myth of the Hippocampus, Christopher A. Duve et al; Animal Models of Global Amnesia - What Can They Tell Us About Memory?, Dave G. Mumby; Behavioural and Pharamcological Analyses of Memory Offer New Behavioural Options for Remediation, J. Bruce Overmeier et al; Nonhumam Primates as Models of Hemispheric Specialization, Jacques Vauclair et al; Animal Aggression - a Model for Stress and Coping, J.M. Koolhaus et al; Mouse Genes and Animal Models of Aggression in Humans, Stephen C. Maxson; Challenges in Assessing Rodent and Nonhuman Primate Aggression, Augusto Vitale and Enrico Alleva; Continuity Versus (Political) Correctness - Animal Models and Human Aggression, D. Caroline Blanchard et al.