Neurobiology of Motor Programme Selection
New Approaches to the Study of Behavioural Choice
Published on 1. January 2000
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240 pages
978-0-7190-3679-8 (ISBN)
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In this book, alternative approaches and ideas concerning the neural bases of behavioural choices are presented. Behavioural choice is treated in terms of selection of motor output. It can mean selection of which motor pattern is to be expressed, which variations of this pattern, the duration of the pattern and when to stop. A discussion of cellular mechanisms is presented first which help to select the motor output pattern in small networks. The next section deals with the neuronal bases of changes in behaviour and the role of distributed networks. Finally, selection of goal-directed and volitional movements are examined.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
92 line drawings, 3 half-tones, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 134 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-3679-8 (9780719036798)
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Content
Introduction: changing approaches to the neuronal analysis of behavioural choice, Jenny Kien et al. Part 1 Cellular bases of motor programme selection: modulatory control of multiple task processing in the stomatogastric nervous system, Eve Marder and James M.Weimann; control of egg-laying behaviour patterns in "Lymnaea stagnalis", Andrels ter Maat et al; motor programme selection and the control of feeding in the snail, Catherine R.McCrohan and Michael A.Kyriakides; mechanisms of behavioural selection in "Lymnaea stagnalis", William Winlow et al; to flex, swim or struggle? behavioural selection in "Xenopus" embryos, Stephen R.Soffe; many neurones in the "Aplysia" abdominal ganglion are active during the gill-withdrawal reflex, Chun Xiao Falk et al. Part 2 Distributed neural networks and motor programme selection: mechanisms of motor pattern switching in crickets stridulation and flight, R.Matthias Hennig; neural circuits for speed change in swimming fish, Barry Roberts and Willem Mos; decision-making in the insect nervous system - a model for selection and maintenance of motor programmes, Jenny Kien and Jennifer S.Altman; making behavioural choices with interneurones in a distributed system, William B.Kristan, Jr et al. Part 3 Selection of directed movements: control of goal-directed limb movements in primates - neurobiological evidence for parallel, distributed motor processing, Garrett E.Alexander and Michael D.Crutcher; premotor systems, attention to action and behavioural choice, Gary Goldberg; directed movement in the frog - spatial representation, motor choice, free will?, Paul Grobstein; deciding what to do next, Jenny Kien et al.