Perception and Motor Control in Birds: An Ecological Approach

Perception and Motor Control in Birds: An Ecological Approach

Edited by M.N.O. Davies, P.R. Green

Publisher: Springer, 1st ed., 1994

ISBN-10: 3642758711

ISBN-13: 978-3642758713

364 pages

Being both broad - perception and motor organization - and narrow - just onegroup of animals - at the same time, this book presents a new unified framework for understanding perceptuomotor organization, stressing the importance of an ecological perspective. Section I reviews recent research on a variety of sensory and perceptual processes in birds, which all involve subtle analyses of the relationships between species' perceptual mechanisms and their ecology and behaviour. Section II describes the variousresearch approaches - behavioural, neurophysiological, anatomical and comparative - all dealing with the common problem of understanding how the activities of large numbers of muscles are coordinated to generate adaptive behaviour. Section III is concerned with a range of approaches to analyzing the links between perceptual and motor processes, through cybernetic modelling, neurophysiological analysis, and behavioural methods.

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