Research Catalog

Title

Vision, brain, and behavior in birds / [edited by] H. Philip Zeigler and Hans-Joachim Bischof.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zeigler, H. Philip (Harris Philip), 1931-
• Bischof, Hans-Joachim.

Description

xxiii, 415 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Subjects

• Birds
• Birds > Physiology
• Visual Pathways
• Eye
• Visual pathways
• Visual Perception
• Brain

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Avian eye view -- Introduction / Sally A. McFadden -- Producing the image / Graham R. Martin -- Exploring the image / Hans-Ortwin Nalbach, Friederike Wolf-Oberhollenzer and Monika Remy -- Constructing the three-dimensional image / Sally A. McFadden -- Visual capabilities of birds / William Hodos -- Color vision of birds / Francisco J. Varela, Adrian G. Palacios and Timothy H. Goldsmith -- Functional anatomy of the avian visual system -- Introduction / Onur Gunturkun -- Avian visual system and the evolution of the neocortex / Toru Shimizu and Harvey J. Karten -- Anatomy of the avian thalamofugal pathway / Onur Gunturkun, Dom Miceli and Masami Watanabe -- Organization of the tectofugal pathway in birds: a comparative review / Jurgen Engelage and Hans-Joachim Bischof -- Binocular processing in frontal-eyed birds / G. Casini, G. Fontanesi and P. Bagnoli -- Development of the avian visual system -- Introduction / Hans-Joachim Bischof -- Developmental anatomy of the chick retinotectal projection / Jorg Mey and Solon Thanos.
• (cont) Development, plasticity and differential organization of parallel processing of visual information in birds / G. Fontanesi ... [et al.] -- Development of the tectofugal visual system of normal and deprived zebra finches / Kathrin Herrmann and Hans-Joachim Bischof -- Developmental mechanisms of lateralization / Lesley J. Rogers and Patrice Adret -- Visuomotor mechanisms -- Introduction / H. Philip Zeigler -- Eye movements, head movements and gaze stabilization in birds / Josh Wallman and Juan-Carlos Letelier -- Sensorimotor mechanisms and pecking in the pigeon / H. Philip Zeigler, Ralf Jager and Adrian G. Palacios -- Control of pecking response topography by stimulus-reinforcer and response-reinforcer contingencies / Robert W. Allan -- Visual mechanisms of prey capture in water birds / Gadi Katzir -- Vision and cognition -- Introduction / Jacky Emmerton -- Lateralization and strategies of viewing in the domestic chick / R.J. Andrew and M. Dharmaretnam -- Two eyes and one world: studies of interocular and intraocular transfer in birds / Monika Remy and Shigeru Watanabe.
• (cont) What can we learn from experiments on pigeon concept discrimination? / Shigeru Watanabe, Stephen E.G. Lea and Winand H. Dittrich -- Beyond sensation: visual cognition in pigeons / Jacky Emmerton and Juan D. Delius -- Vision, cognition and the avian hippocampus / Verner P. Bingman.

ISBN

026224036X

LCCN

93022353

OCLC

ocm27727176

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries