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Complex Worlds from Simpler Nervous Systems »
Authors: Frederick R. Prete
ISBN-13: 9780262661744, ISBN-10: 0262661748
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Frederick R. Prete
Frederick R. Prete, Ph.D. is founder and President of Visuo Technologies, LLC, which develops visual prostheses for blind and visually impaired children. He is an instructor of Biological Psychology at DePaul University, and both lead editor and a contributor to The Praying Mantids.
Book Synopsis
Examining the surprisingly complex perceptual abilities of so-called "simpler" animals, including jumping spiders, bees, praying mantids, butterflies, cockroaches, bladder grasshoppers, crayfish, mantis shrimps, octopuses, and toads.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| I | Creating visual worlds : using abstract representations and algorithms | 1 |
| Introduction | 3 | |
| 1 | Portia perceptions : the umwelt of an araneophagic jumping spider | 5 |
| 2 | Exploration of cognitive capacity in honeybees : higher functions emerge from a small brain | 41 |
| 3 | In the mind of a hunter : the visual world of the praying mantis | 75 |
| 4 | Motion perception shapes the visual world of amphibians | 117 |
| II | Enhancing the visual basics : using color and polarization | 161 |
| Introduction | 163 | |
| 5 | Color vision in bees : mechanisms, ecology, and evolution | 165 |
| 6 | Color vision and retinal organization in butterflies | 193 |
| 7 | Seasonal variation in the visual world of crayfish | 221 |
| 8 | The unique visual world of mantis shrimps | 239 |
| 9 | The octopus's garden : the visual world of cephalopods | 269 |
| III | Out of sight : creating extravisual worlds | 309 |
| Introduction | 311 | |
| 10 | The vigilance of the hunted : mechanosensory-visual integration in insect prey | 313 |
| 11 | A novel approach to hearing : the acoustic world of pneumorid grasshoppers | 335 |
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