Electroreception: Fundamental Insights from Comparative Approaches

Bruce A. Carlson (Curatore)

Joseph A. Sisneros (Curatore)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019

A fundamental goal of neuroscience is to understand how the nervous system extracts biologically relevant information from the natural environment and how it uses that information to guide and coordinate behavior necessary for reproduction and survival. The electrosensory systems of weakly electric teleost fishes and those of nonteleost fishes are attractive systems for addressing basic questions about neuronal information processing and its relationship to natural behavior. Comparative approaches in these fishes have led to the identification of fundamental mechanisms that have shaped the adaptive evolution of sensory systems across animal taxa. Understanding how sensory systems encode and integrate information about the natural world has far reaching implications for advancing our knowledge in the basic biomedical sciences and in understanding how the nervous system has evolved to control behavior. The primary goal of this book is to provide a comparative perspectiveon the topic of electroreception and review some of the fundamental insights gained from studies of electrosensory and electromotor systems. Although totally independent, this book follows from volume 21 in the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research series, Electroreception (Bullock, T. H., Hopkins, C. D., Popper, A. N., and Fay, R. R., 2005, Springer-Verlag, New York). 

• Curatore: Bruce A. Carlson, Joseph A. Sisneros
• Editore: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Collana: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 367 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9783030291044

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