
Spatial Representation in Animals
Healy(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 9. April 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
198 pages
978-0-19-850006-3 (ISBN)
Description
Our understanding of the way in which animals know how, when, and where to orient and navigate around their environment has grown considerably over the last decade. Movements may be anything from small displacements in the immediate environment to the long-distance migration of salmon or swallows. How animals find their way around is both immensely variable and controversial - what cues they use and what senses are involved, how much they remember, to what extent they rely on instinctive information or learning, how the processing and storing of spatial information occurs in the brain. Discussion of landmark use, dead reckoning, spatial memory, and map-making ranges across disciplines, with different perspectives emerging from research in behaviour, ecology, psychology, and neurophysiology. Spatial Representation in Animals brings together cross-disciplinary research on navigation in several different species, in an accessible and exciting way. Individual authors, all eminent specialists within their fields, have been asked to present reviews of the material with which they are most familiar and to speculate about future directions in the field. This will be an ideal introductory text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of biology or psychology taking a course in animal navigation.
Reviews / Votes
'...the eight chapters in this book are easily accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate as well as to experts in the field ...an illuminating and up-to-date introduction to our understanding of the ways in which animals find their way about. It is definitely worth a read.' * Nature * '...Well referenced, suitable for advanced undergraduates and researchers in navigation.' * Aslib Book Guide, vol.64, no.2, Feb.99 * '...The chapters are well written and intelligible...the book offers a compact overview over most of the recent directions in animal representations of space.' * Lars Chittka, Animal Behaviour 57,3. *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
halftones, line figures, tables
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
398 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-850006-3 (9780198500063)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Mechanisms of landmark use in mammals and birds ; 2. Places and landmarks: an arthropod perspective ; 3. Role of dead reckoning in navigation ; 4. Spatial representations and homing pigeon navigation ; 5. Spatial memory, landmark use, and orientation in fish ; 6. Spatiotemporal aspects of avian long-distance migration ; 7. Landmark use and the cognitive map in the rat ; 8. Natural selection of spatial representation