The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 November 2003
- ISBN 9780198515241
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 246x174x23 mm
- Weight 751 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures 0
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Short description:
This book explores the relationship between cellular processes and animal behaviour. It does this by focusing on the domain of navigation, bringing together scientists from either side of the brain-behaviour divide in an attempt to explain the linkage between spatial behaviour and the underlying activity of neurons.The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including ethologists, psychologists, behavioural neuroscientists, computational modelers, physiological neuroscientists and molecular biologists.
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This book explores the relationship between cellular processes and animal behaviour. It does this by focusing on the domain of navigation, bringing together scientists from either side of the brain-behaviour divide in an attempt to explain the linkage between spatial behaviour and the underlying activity of neurons.
The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour is organised into two sections. Section one deals with the so-called 'higher' levels of description - studies of spatial behaviour and the brain areas that might underlie such behaviour. The section begins with insects, remarkably sophisticated navigators, and ends with humans, examining along the way issues such as whether animal brains contain maps and whether spatial and non-spatial information interact, and if so, how? Section two delves further into the brain and focuses on the mammalian representation of space and the role of place cells.
These issues have far wider ramifications that simply helping us to understand the process of navigation. This system might provide a model for how other forms of knowledge, beliefs and intentions are encoded in neurons. As such, the book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including ethologists, psychologists, behavioural neuroscientists, computational modellers, physiological neuroscientists and molecular biologists.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Part 1: From Behaviour to Circuitry: Introduction
Path integration in insects
A role for the hippocampus in dead reckoning: an ethological analysis using natural exploratory and food-carrying tasks
How does path integration interact with olfaction, vision and the representation of space?
Contextual cues and insect navigation
A model of hippocampal-cortical-amygdala interactions based on contextual fear conditioning
Do animals use maps?
Comparative approaches to human navigation
Studies of the neural basis of human navigation and memory
Part 2: From Circuits to Cells: Introduction
The head direction system and navigation
Drawing parallels between the behavioural and neural properties of navigation
Spatial coding in the hippocampal formation: input, information type, plasticity and behaviour
Hippocampal remapping: implications for spatial learning and navigation
Navigation in the moving world
Reading cognitive and other maps: how to avoid getting buried in thought
The representation of spatial context
Place cells: a framework for episodic memory
