Research Catalog

Title

Neural and endocrine aspects of behaviour in birds / edited by Peter Wright, Peter G. Caryl and David M. Vowles.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co., 1975.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wright, Peter, M.A., D.Phil
• Caryl, Peter G.
• Vowles, David M.
• University of Edinburgh. Department of Psychology.

Description

x, 408 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Birds > Behavior > Congresses
• Birds > Nervous system > Congresses
• Endocrinology > Congresses
• Birds
• Brain
• Animal behavior
• Birds
• Brain
• Ethology
• brains
• Animal behavior
• Birds > Behavior
• Birds > Nervous system
• Endocrinology
• Verhalten
• Vögel
• Vogels
• Neurologische aspecten
• Endocrien systeem
• Birds > Behavior

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Papers from a conference sponsored by the Dept. of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 1974.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

Ethological and psychological approaches to the study of brain-behaviour relationships / Peter Caryl and Peter Wright -- Temporal patterning and the causation of bird behaviour / P.J.B. Slater -- Nest construction by the domestic hen : some comparative and physiological considerations / D.G.M. Wood-Gush -- Integration of gonadotrophin and steroid secretion, spermatogenesis and behaviour in the reproductive cycle of male pigeon species / R.K. Murton and N.J. Westwood -- The hormonal basis of cooperative nest-building / Carl J. Erickson and Marie Christine Martinez-Vargas -- Target cells for gonadal steroids in the brain : studies on hormone binding and metabolism / Richard E. Zigmond -- Target cells for gonadal steroids in the brain : studies on steroid-sensitive mechanisms of behaviour / J.B. Hutchison -- The role of the avian hyperstriatal complex in learning / Euan M. Macphail -- Interhemispheric interactions / Hans Zeier -- How birds use their eyes / Mark B. Friedman -- Arousal and orientation functions of the avian telencephalon / Eric A. Salzen and Denis M. Parker -- Brain organization and neuromuscular control of vocalization in birds / Richard E. Phillips and Frank W. Peek -- Midbrain mechanisms of calling and their relation to emotional states / R.J. Andrew -- Gustatory behaviour of the chicken and other birds / Michael J. Gentle -- The neural substrate of feeding behaviour in birds / Peter Wright -- Appendix. A stereotaxic atlas of the dove brain (Streptopelia risoria) / David M. Vowles, L.D. Beazley and D. Harwood.

ISBN

• 0444413561
• 9780444413567

LCCN

75331685

OCLC

• ocm01868322
• 1868322
• SCSB-296771

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