The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour 1st Edition by Jeffery ISBN 978-0198515241 0198515243

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ISBN 10:  0198515243

ISBN 13: 978-0198515241

Author: K. J. Jeffery

This book explores the relationship between cellular processes and animal behavior. It does this by focusing on the domain of navigation, bringing together scientists from either side of the brain-behavior divide in an attempt to explain the linkage between spatial behavior and the underlying activity of neurons.

The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour is organized into two sections. Section one deals with the so-called “higher” levels of description – studies of spatial behavior and the brain areas that might underlie such behavior. The section begins with insects, remarkably sophisticated navigators, and ends with humans, examining along the way issues such as whether animal brains contain maps and whether spatial and non-spatial information interact, and if so, how? Section two delves further into the brain and focuses on the mammalian representations of space and the role of place cells.

These issues have far wider ramifications that simply helping us to understand the process of navigation. This system might provide a model for how other forms of knowledge, beliefs and intentions are encoded in neurons. As such, the book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including ethologists, psychologists, behavioral neuroscientists, computational modelers, physiological neuroscientists and molecular biologists.

Table of contents: 

Part 1: From Behaviour to Circuitry: Introduction
1:Path integration in insects, R Wehner and M V Srinivasan
2:A role for the hippocampus in dead reckoning: an ethological analysis using natural exploratory and food-carrying tasks, D Wallace et al
3:How does path integration interact with olfaction, vision and the representation of space?, A S Etienne
4:Contextual cues and insect navigation, T S Collett et al
5:A model of hippocampal-cortical-amygdala interactions based on contextual fear conditioning, B J Wiltgen and M S Fanselow
6:Do animals use maps?, S Healy et al
7:Comparative approaches to human navigation, R F Wang and E S Spelke
8:Studies of the neural basis of human navigation and memory, T Hartley et al
Part 2: From Circuits to Cells: Introduction
9:The head direction system and navigation, Dudchenko
10:Drawing parallels between the behavioural and neural properties of navigation, B Poucet et al
11:Spatial coding in the hippocampal formation: input, information type, plasticity and behaviour, C Lever et al
12:Hippocampal remapping: implications for spatial learning and navigation, J J Knierim
13:Navigation in the moving world, A A Fenton and J Bures
14:Reading cognitive and other maps: how to avoid getting buried in thought, R Biegler
15:The representation of spatial context, M I Anderson et al
16:Place cells: a framework for episodic memory, E R Wood

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