The Design of animal communication / edited by Marc D. Hauser and Mark Konishi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hauser, Marc D.

Konishi, Mark.

Series:

A Bradford book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal communication--Congresses.

Animal communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 701 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Ma. : MIT Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When animals, including humans, communicate, they convey information and express their perceptions of the world. Because different organisms are able to produce and perceive different signals, the animal world contains a diversity of communication systems. Based on the approach laid out in the 1950s by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen, this book looks at animal communication from the four perspectives of mechanisms, ontogeny, function, and phylogeny. The book's great strength is its broad comparative perspective, which enables the reader to appreciate the diversity of solutions to particular problems of signal design and perception. For example, although the neural circuitry underlying the production of acoustic signals is different in frogs, songbirds, bats, and humans, each involves a set of dedicated pathways designed to solve particular problems of communicative efficiency. Such comparative findings form the basis of a conceptual framework for understanding the mechanisms underlying communication systems and their evolution.

Contents:

Mechanisms of Communication

Vocal Communication in Xenopus laevis / Darcy B. Kelley, Martha L. Tobias

The Motor Basis of Vocal Performance in Songbirds / Roderick A. Suthers

The Anatomy and Timing of Vocal Learning in Birds / Fernando Nottebohm

The Dance Language of Honeybees: Recent Findings and Problems / Axel Michelsen

Processing Species-specific Calls by Combination-sensitive Neurons in an Echolocating Bat / Jagmeet S. Kanwal

A Cellular Basis for Reading Minds from Faces and Actions / David I. Perrett

Neural Systems for Recognizing Emotions in Humans / Ralph Adolphs

The Neuroendocrine Basis of Seasonal Changes in Vocal Behavior among Songbirds / Gregory F. Ball

Testosterone, Aggression, and Communication: Ecological Bases of Endocrine Phenomena / John C. Wingfield, Jerry D. Jacobs, Kiran Soma, Donna L. Maney, Kathleen Hunt, Deborah Wisti-Peterson, Simone Meddle, Marilyn Ramenofsky, Kimberly Sullivan

Ontogeny of Communication

On Innateness: Are Sparrow Songs "Learned" or "Innate"? / Peter Marler

Making Ecological Sense of Song Development by Songbirds / Donald E. Kroodsma

Song- and Order-seective Auditory Responses Emerge in Neurons of the Songbird Anterior Forebrain during Vocal Learning / Allison J. Doupe, Michele M. Solis

Genetics of Canary Song Learning: Innate Mechanisms and Other Neurobiological Considerations / Paul C. Mundinger

Production, Usage, and Response in Nonhuman Primate Vocal Development / Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Based on a symposium which took place on March 22 and 23, 1997 at the University of California Davis.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-27508-2

0-585-25215-7

OCLC:

45731684