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).
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ISBN
9783030291051
Publisert
2019
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Springer
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Engelsk
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Digital bok