Spatial Representation in Animals - Hardcover

Healy, Susan

9780198500070: Spatial Representation in Animals

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ISBN 10: 0198500076 ISBN 13: 9780198500070

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

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Our understanding of the way in which animals know how, when, and where to orient and navigate around their environment has grown considerably over the last decade. Movement can vary from displacement in the immediate environment to the long-distance migration of salmon or swallows. How animals find their way around is both immensely variable and controversial - what cues they use and how their senses are involved, how much they remember, to what extent they rely on instinctive information or learning. Behaviour, ecology, and neurophysiology are all implicated and have been investigated in a wide range of organisms by researchers all over the world. Individual authors, all eminent specialists within their fields, have been asked to present reviews of the material in which they are most familiar and to speculate about future directions in the field.

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'...the eight chapters in this book are easily accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate as well as to experts in the field ...an illuminating and up-to-date introduction to our understanding of the ways in which animals find their way about. It is definitely worth a read.' (Nature)

'...Well referenced, suitable for advanced undergraduates and researchers in navigation.' (Aslib Book Guide, vol.64, no.2, Feb.99)

'...The chapters are well written and intelligible...the book offers a compact overview over most of the recent directions in animal representations of space.' (Lars Chittka, Animal Behaviour 57,3.)