Progress in Physiological Psychology
Volume 5
Published on 1. January 1973
384 pages
978-1-4831-4444-3 (ISBN)
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Progress in Physiological Psychology
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Eliot Stellar | James M. Sprague
Progress in Physiological Psychology: v. 5
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01/1974
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Content
- Front Cover
- Progress in Physiological Psychology
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Contents of Previous Volumes
- Chapter 1. An Analysis of Habituation in the Specific Sensory Systems
- I. Introduction
- II. What Is a Sensory System?
- III. Literature Review: Sensory System Responses during Repeated Stimulation
- IV. Response Plasticity Reflected by Multiple-Unit Recording and Long-Duration Stimuli
- V. Mechanisms of Response Decrements in Specific Sensory Nuclei
- VI. Parametric Comparisons between Sensory and MotorResponse Decrements
- VII. Relation of Response Decrements in Specific Sensory Nuclei to Arousal Habituation
- VIII. Relation of Sensory Response Decrements to Behavioral Adaptation
- IX. Summary
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 2. Inferotemporal Cortex and Vision
- I. Introduction
- II. Behavioral Effects of Inferotemporal Lesions
- III. Afferent Connections of Inferotemporal Cortex
- IV. Contrasting Effects of Inferotemporal and Foveal Prestriate Cortex Lesions
- V. Electrophysiology of Inferotemporal Cortex
- VI. A Final Comment
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 3. Studies of the Physiological Basesof Memory
- I. Introduction
- II. Procedures and Initial Findings
- IV. Temporal Gradient of Effect
- V. Generalized Electrical Silence due to Hippocampal KC
- VI. Generality of the Deficits
- VII. Permanence of the Suppression Deficit
- VIII. Short- and Long-Term Processes
- IX. Some Final Considerations
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 4. Mechanisms of Electrodermal Adaptations for Locomotion, Manipulation, or Defense
- I. Introduction
- II. Neurodermal Activity and Adaptive Behavior
- III. Peripheral Physiological Processes
- IV. Evidence for Two Different Responding Elements
- V. Evidence for Two Independent Innervations
- VI. Peripheral Physiological Mechanisms
- VII. Overview
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 5. The Adipose Tissue System and Food Intake
- I. Introduction
- II. Origin and Evolution of the "Fat Organ Concept
- III. White Fat vs. Brown Fat
- IV. Physiological Implication of the "Fat Organ Concept
- V. Response of the Fat Organs to Excessive Lipid Deposition in Experimentally Obese Mice
- VI. Autoregulation of the Adipose Tissue Mass
- VII. Food Intake Regulation in Goldthioglucose-Treated Mice
- VIII. Surgical Removal of Specific Fat Organs and Food Intake
- IX. Effects of Goldthioglucose-Induced Obesity in Genetically Obese Mice
- X. Anorexia and Lipid Mobilization in Tumor-Bearing Mice
- XI. Discussion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 6. Neurophysiological Analysis of Mating Behavior Responses as Hormone-Sensitive Reflexes
- I. Introduction
- II. Localization of Cells Concentrating Steroid Sex Hormones in the Rat Brain
- III. Electrophysiological Effects of Sex Hormones on Single-Unit Activity in the Rat Brain
- IV. Analysis of Lordosis in the Female Rat as a Hormone-Sensitive Reflex
- V. Summary
- References
- Chapter 7. Adrenal Hormones and Emotional Behavior
- I. Introduction
- II. Physiological Control of Adrenal Hormone Secretion
- III. Adrenal Hormones as Emotional Respondents
- IV. Adrenal Hormones as Mechanisms of Emotional Behavior
- V. Formulation
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
