Several years ago the author of this book, in response to requests for an account of the
nervous system especially adapted for the use of zoologists, physiologists, comparative …

The investigation of the relationships between a behavior pattern and its underlying sensory
and neurophysiological mechanisms in both man and animals dates back well into the last …

Based on the principles of the conditioned reflex, a number of systematic studies are
reported in some detail. 2 general conclusions emerge:(a)" the peculiarities of higher …

In May of 1969, the contributors to this book gathered at the University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor for three days to talk about their work in the behavioral analysis of animal sensory …

The cerebral hemispheres stand out as the crowning achievement in the nervous
development of the animal kingdom. These structures in the higher animals are of …

Nervous organization is found in a most elementary form in the sea-anemones. Their
behaviour is brought about partly by specific muscles, partly by the mechanically complex …

This volume presents the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on" Advances
in Vertebrate Neuroethology" held at the University of Kassel, Federal Republic of Germany …

The attempt has been made in the following pages to give an account of the nervous system
as a whole, to trace its phylogenetic history and to show the factors which have determined …

For nearly fifty years the dominant and accepted theory of the evolution of the nervous
system has been that of GH Parker, developed over the course of the decade from 1909 to …

The extension of the concept of the reflex to the description of the behavior of intact
organisms is a common practice in modern theorizing. Nevertheless, we owe most of our …