TY - BOOK ID - 30661910 TI - Complex worlds from simpler nervous systems PY - 2004 SN - 0262281899 1417574704 9780262281898 9781417574704 PB - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cognition in animals. KW - Learning in animals. KW - Animal behavior. KW - Visual Perception KW - Behavior, Animal. KW - Vision, Ocular KW - Sensation KW - Light Signal Transduction KW - Ocular Physiological Processes KW - Behavior KW - Perception KW - Psychophysiology KW - Ocular Physiological Phenomena KW - Signal Transduction KW - Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms KW - Nervous System Physiological Processes KW - Mental Processes KW - Phenomena and Processes KW - Biochemical Processes KW - Nervous System Physiological Phenomena KW - Cell Physiological Processes KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Psychological Phenomena and Processes KW - Chemical Processes KW - Cell Physiological Phenomena KW - Biochemical Phenomena KW - Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena KW - Chemical Phenomena KW - Behavior, Animal KW - Zoology KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Animal Behavior KW - physiology. KW - Animal Behaviors KW - Behaviors, Animal KW - Light Signal Transduction, Visual KW - Ocular Vision KW - Visual Light Signal Transduction KW - Visual Phototransduction KW - Visual Transduction KW - Vision KW - Phototransduction, Visual KW - Transduction, Visual KW - Perception, Visual KW - Perceptions, Visual KW - Visual Perceptions KW - Chemical Phenomenon KW - Chemical Process KW - Physical Chemistry Phenomena KW - Physical Chemistry Process KW - Physicochemical Phenomenon KW - Physicochemical Process KW - Chemical Concepts KW - Physical Chemistry Concepts KW - Physical Chemistry Processes KW - Physicochemical Concepts KW - Physicochemical Phenomena KW - Physicochemical Processes KW - Chemical Concept KW - Chemistry Process, Physical KW - Chemistry Processes, Physical KW - Concept, Chemical KW - Concept, Physical Chemistry KW - Concept, Physicochemical KW - Concepts, Chemical KW - Concepts, Physical Chemistry KW - Concepts, Physicochemical KW - Phenomena, Chemical KW - Phenomena, Physical Chemistry KW - Phenomena, Physicochemical KW - Phenomenon, Chemical KW - Phenomenon, Physicochemical KW - Physical Chemistry Concept KW - Physicochemical Concept KW - Process, Chemical KW - Process, Physical Chemistry KW - Process, Physicochemical KW - Processes, Chemical KW - Processes, Physical Chemistry KW - Processes, Physicochemical KW - Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Concepts KW - Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomenon KW - Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiology KW - Biochemical Concepts KW - Biochemical Phenomenon KW - Biochemical Process KW - Phenomena, Biochemical KW - Biochemical Concept KW - Concept, Biochemical KW - Concepts, Biochemical KW - Phenomenon, Biochemical KW - Process, Biochemical KW - Processes, Biochemical KW - Cell Physiological Phenomenon KW - Cell Physiological Process KW - Physiology, Cell KW - Cell Physiology KW - Phenomena, Cell Physiological KW - Phenomenon, Cell Physiological KW - Physiological Process, Cell KW - Physiological Processes, Cell KW - Process, Cell Physiological KW - Processes, Cell Physiological KW - Cells KW - Psychologic Processes and Principles KW - Human Information Processing KW - Information Processing, Human KW - Nervous System Physiological Concepts KW - Nervous System Physiological Phenomenon KW - Nervous System Physiological Process KW - Physiology, Nervous System KW - Nervous System Physiologic Processes KW - Nervous System Physiology KW - System Physiology, Nervous KW - Nervous System KW - Receptor Mediated Signal Transduction KW - Signal Transduction Pathways KW - Signal Transduction Systems KW - Receptor-Mediated Signal Transduction KW - Signal Pathways KW - Pathway, Signal KW - Pathway, Signal Transduction KW - Pathways, Signal KW - Pathways, Signal Transduction KW - Receptor-Mediated Signal Transductions KW - Signal Pathway KW - Signal Transduction Pathway KW - Signal Transduction System KW - Signal Transduction, Receptor-Mediated KW - Signal Transductions KW - Signal Transductions, Receptor-Mediated KW - System, Signal Transduction KW - Systems, Signal Transduction KW - Transduction, Signal KW - Transductions, Signal KW - Eye Physiology KW - Ocular Physiologic Process KW - Ocular Physiological Concepts KW - Ocular Physiological Phenomenon KW - Ocular Physiological Process KW - Physiology of the Eye KW - Physiology, Ocular KW - Visual Physiology KW - Ocular Physiologic Processes KW - Ocular Physiology KW - Concept, Ocular Physiological KW - Concepts, Ocular Physiological KW - Ocular Physiological Concept KW - Phenomena, Ocular Physiological KW - Phenomenon, Ocular Physiological KW - Physiologic Process, Ocular KW - Physiologic Processes, Ocular KW - Physiological Concept, Ocular KW - Physiological Concepts, Ocular KW - Physiological Process, Ocular KW - Physiological Processes, Ocular KW - Physiology, Eye KW - Physiology, Visual KW - Process, Ocular Physiologic KW - Process, Ocular Physiological KW - Processes, Ocular Physiologic KW - Processes, Ocular Physiological KW - Eye KW - Mind-Body Relationship (Physiology) KW - Physiologic Psychology KW - Physiological Psychology KW - Psychology, Physiologic KW - Mind-Body Relations (Physiology) KW - Psychology, Physiological KW - Mind Body Relations (Physiology) KW - Mind Body Relationship (Physiology) KW - Mind-Body Relation (Physiology) KW - Mind-Body Relationships (Physiology) KW - Physiologic Psychologies KW - Psychologies, Physiologic KW - Relation, Mind-Body (Physiology) KW - Relations, Mind-Body (Physiology) KW - Relationship, Mind-Body (Physiology) KW - Relationships, Mind-Body (Physiology) KW - Perceptions KW - Acceptance Process KW - Acceptance Processes KW - Behaviors KW - Process, Acceptance KW - Processes, Acceptance KW - Phototransduction KW - Signal Transduction, Light KW - Transduction, Light Signal KW - Organoleptic KW - Sensory Function KW - Function, Sensory KW - Functions, Sensory KW - Sensations KW - Sensory Functions KW - Animals KW - Animals, Habits and behavior of KW - Ethology KW - Animal learning KW - Animal cognition KW - physiology KW - Ophthalmology KW - Molecular Biology KW - Psychologic Processes KW - Psychological Processes KW - Phenomena, Psychological KW - Processes, Psychologic KW - Processes, Psychological KW - Psychological Phenomenas KW - Psychological Processe KW - Cell Communication KW - Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell KW - Receptor Cross-Talk KW - Feedback, Physiological KW - Gasotransmitters KW - Psychosomatic Medicine KW - Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical KW - Photoreceptors, Plant KW - Animal psychology KW - Ethologists KW - Psychology, Comparative KW - Animal intelligence KW - Cell Signaling KW - NEUROSCIENCE/General KW - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30661910 AB - The authors of Complex Worlds from Simpler Nervous Systems explain how animals with small, often minuscule, nervous systems--jumping spiders, bees, praying mantids, toads, and others--are not the simple "reflex machines" they were once thought to be. Because these animals live in the same world as do much larger species, they must meet the same environmental challenges. They do so by constructing complex perceptual worlds within which they can weigh options, make decisions, integrate unique experiences, apply complex algorithms, and execute plans--and they must do this with thousands rather than the billions of neurons necessary for their larger counterparts. The authors of each chapter, leading neuroscientists and animal behaviorists, present their research in ways that allow the reader to understand this process from the animal's perspective. The first of the book's three parts, "Creating Visual Worlds: Using Abstract Representations and Algorithms," examines the visual worlds of jumping spiders, honeybees, praying mantids, and toads. Part II, "Enhancing the Visual Basics: Using Color and Polarization," explores color vision and light polarization perception in honeybees, butterflies, crayfish, mantis shrimps, and octopuses. The final part, "Out of Sight: Creating Extravisual Worlds," examines the complex integration of visual and mechanosensory information in the cockroach and the unique auditory world of the unusual bladder grasshopper. All of these fascinating stories can be read both for what they teach us about the perceptual worlds of little animals, and for what they suggest about the general organizing principles of all central nervous systems, both "simple" and complex. ER -