Gerhard Roth / Mario F. Wullimann

Brain Evolution and Cognition

Mitarbeit: Roth, Gerhard; Wullimann, Mario F.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dieses Buch behandelt zwei untrennbar miteinander verbundene Themen: Die strukturelle Entwicklung des Gehirns und die daraus resultierende Entwicklung der kognitiven Funktionen bei verschiedenen Spezies. Der Schwerpunkt des Buches liegt dabei auf den Wirbeltieren. Darüber hinaus gibt es einführende Informationen zur allgemeinen Gendarstellung der Gehirne von Wirbeltieren und Wirbellosen; die kognitiven Aspekte des Insektengehirns werden in einem Sonderkapitel detailliert behandelt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Spektrum / Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 597
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm
• Gewicht: 980g
• ISBN-13: 9780471331704
• ISBN-10: 0471331708
• Artikelnr.: 09290212

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents: Problems in the Study of Brain Evolution and Cognition (G. Roth & M. Wullimann) / Developmental and Adult Brain Organization in Evolution / Brain Phenotypes and Early Regulatory Genes: The Bauplan of the Metazoan Central Nervous System (M. Wullimann) / The Echinoderm Nervous System and Its Phylogenetic Interpretation (T. Heinzeller & U. Welsch) / Evolution of Motor Systems in Vertebrates (H. ten Donkelaar) / Sensory System Evolution in Vertebrates (W. Hodos & A. Butler) / Evolution of the Forebrain in Tetrapods (T. Shimizu) / Neocortical Macrocircuits (R. Nieuwenhuys) / Case Studies of Vertebrate Brain Evolution /Hunting in Barn Owl's - Peripheral and Neurobiological Specializations and Their General Relevance in Neural Computation (H. Wagner) / Evolution and Devolution: The Case of Bolitoglossine Salamanders (G. Roth & D. Wake) / Evolutionary Constraints of Large Telencephala (G. Rehkämper, et al.) / Cognition: From NeuraL Basis to Behavior / Evolution of Neur

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"Brain Evolution and Cognition is one of the best testimonies to the liveliness and richness of the debate on brain evolution and cognition as it stands today.... In a subject (consciousness) where people so often speculate from thought-experiments and intuition, it's particularly gratifying to read such rigorously grounded thinking...this book is certainly a welcome contribution and a valuable read to all of those puzzled by that most amazing of organs - the brain." --Metapsychology Online Book Review (Isabel Gois, King's College London) "...one of the best testimonies to the liveliness and richness of the debate on brain evolution and cognition as it stands today...a welcome contribution and a valuable read..." (Metapsychology Online, November 25, 2001) "Biologists in various specialties address such questions as whether it is possible to draw principles of brain evolution; why some brains become large and complex, others become small and simple, and still other remained as they were for hundreds of millions of years...." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 2001)