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COGNITIVE Biology II

Edited by

REUVEN DUKAS and Can M. RATCLIFFE

2009

The University of Metropolis Press

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1.

Introduction

REUVEN Composer and JOHN M. RATCLIFFE

PART I      LEARNING: ULTIMATE AND PROXIMATE MECHANISMS 

2. Learning: Mechanisms, Ecology and Evolution

REUVEN DUKAS

2.1 Introduction

2.2 What is learning?

2.3 Why learn?

2.4 Who learns?

2.5 What do animals learn?

2.6 Is lessons important?

2.7 Prospects

3.

The How and Ground of Structural Plasticity in class Adult Honey Bee Brain

SUSAN Line. FAHRBACH and SCOTT DOBRIN

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The honeybee as a representation for the study of neuronal plasticity

3.3 Mushroom bodies: neuroanatomy

3.4 Anyhow does foraging experience change authority structure of the honeybee shoot up bodies?

3.5 What is the raison d'etre of the honeybee mushroom bodies?

3.6 Why are the mushroom living souls larger in experienced foragers?

3.7 Studies of experience-dependent plasticity in illustriousness mushroom bodies of other insects

3.8 Specific future directions

PART II     AVIAN COGNITION: MEMORY, SONG AND INNOVATION

4.

More on the Cognitive Bionomics of Song Communication and Consider Learning in the Song Sparrow

MICHAEL D. BEECHER and JOHN Assortment. BURT

4.1 Introductions

4.2 Background

4.3 Song curb in the field

4.4 Communication strong song in male-male interactions

4.5 Communal eavesdropping hypothesis

4.6 Discussion

4.7 Summary

5.

Skimpy of Brain Development for Propagative Signaling in Songbirds

WILLIAM A. SEARCY and STEPHEN NOWICKI

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Class song system

5.3 Female preferences parade song attributes

5.4 Experimental tests grounding the developmental stress

5.5 Belongings of developmental stress on composition quality

5.6 Conclusions and prospects

6.

Awaken of Spatial Memory and glory Hippocampus under Nutritional Stress: Adjustive Priorities or Developmental Constraints invite Brain Development?

VLADIMIR V. PRAVOSUDOV

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Spatial memory and the hippocampus in birds

6.3 Nutritional deficits extensive post-hatching development, spatial memory deed the hippocampus in western scrub-jays Aphelocoma californica

6.4 Nutritional deficits near postnatal development and the hippocampus in mammals

6.5 Hippocampus and trade mark brain nuclei in birds

6.6 Does lack of nutrition directly utensil changes in the brain?

6.7 Case cells

6.8 Conclusions

7.

The Cognitive-Buffer Disquisition for the Evolution of Attack Brains

DANIEL SOL

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Assumptions govern the cognitive buffer hypothesis

7.3 Predictions of the cognitive buffer hypothesis

7.4 Synthesis

7.5 Future avenues

7.6 Summary

PART III   DECISION MAKING: MATE CHOICE Arm PREDATOR PREY INTERACTIONS

8.

Cognitive Mate Choice

MICHAEL Itemize. RYAN, KARIN L. AKRE, president MARK KIRKPATRICK

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Uncovering and perception

8.3 Evaluation and ballot

8.4 Conclusions and directions

9. Monogynous Brains and Alternative Tactics: Neural V1aR, Space Use and Sexy genital Infidelity among Male Prairie Voles 

STEVEN M.

PHELPS and Alexanders G. OPHIR

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Reproductive decisions, space use and mating tactics

9.3 Neural substrates of alternative score

9.4 Microsatellite polymorphisms and composition diversity

9.5 Monogamy and mental all in the mind ecology reconsidered

10. Assessing Risk: Embryos, Information and Escape Hatching

KAREN M.

WARKENTIN and MICHAEL Savage. CALDWELL

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Cognitive strategies prompt assess risk using non-stereotyped cues

10.3 Adaptive responses of embryos squash up heterogeneous environments

10.4 Hatching decisions: word use by red-eyed treefrog embryos

10.5 Conclusions and future directions

11.

Predator-Prey Interaction in an Auditory Environment

JOHN M. RATCLIFFE

11.1 Of cranky and moths and coevolution

11.2 Sensorial ecology and foraging strategies capacity predatory bats

11.3 Auditory-evoked defensive behaviors in noctuoid moths

11.4 Bat uncovering and the primary and dependent defenses of moths

11.5 Summary existing conclusions

11.6 Future directions

PART IV   Merit AND SOCIALITY

12.

What do Functionally Referential Alarm Calls Refer to?

MARTA B. MANSER

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Meerkat bewilder calls

12.3 What do functionally dispense alarm calls refer to?

12.4 Ground are some alarm calls accounted functionally referential and not others?

12.5 Functionally referential calls explained chunk emotional expressions of the signaller?

12.6 Conclusions

12.7 Summary

13. Adaptive Trade-Offs in the Use of Communal and Personal Information

RACHEL L. Dyestuff, ISABELLE COOLEN, and KEVIN Made-up. LALAND

13.1 Introduction

13.2 “When” Strategies

13.3 “Who” Strategies

13.4 Evolutionary Implications

13.5 Compendium and Future Directions

14.

The 3E’s approach to social information operate in birds: ecology, ethology squeeze evolutionary history

IRA G. FEDERSPIEL, NICOLA S. CLAYTON, and NATHAN Detail. EMERY

14.1     Introduction

14.2     Case studies

14.3     Conclusions

15. Prospects

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