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The topics discussed in this volume have been chosen to represent studies in which both behavioural and neurobiological analysis have been emphasized. Each contribution has been written by a leading international authority and gives an up-to-date and concise account of current developments.

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Author:   J. R. Krebs (Professor, Professor, Department of Zoology, Oxford) ,  G. Horn (Professor, Professor, Department of Zoology, Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 30.40cm
Weight:   0.668kg
ISBN:  

9780198521983

ISBN 10:   0198521987
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   20 June 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

L. Weiskrantz: Problems of learning and memory: one or multiple memory systems?; Peter Marler: Song-learning: the interface between behaviour and neuroethology; F. Nottebohm, Arturo Alvarez Buylla, Jeffrey Cynx, John Kirn, Chang-Ying Ling, Marla Nottebohm, Robert Suter, Amanda Tolles, & Heather Williams: Song-learning in birds: the relation between perception and production; P. Bateson: Is imprinting such a special case?; G. Horn: Neural bases of recognition memory investigated through an analysis of imprinting; Sara J. Shettleworth: Spatial memory in food-storing birds; J.R. Krebs: Food-storing birds: adaptive specialization in brain and behaviour?; R.F. Thompson: Neural mechanisms of classical conditioning in mammals; Kent Fitzgerald, William G. Wright, Emilie A. Marcus, & Thomas J. Carew: Multiple forms of non-associative plasticity in Aplysia: a behavioural cellular, and pharmacological analysis; I.P.L. Maclaren & A. Dickinson: The conditioning connection; R.G.M. Morris, S. Davies, & S.P. Butcher: Hippocampal synaptic plasticity and NMDA receptors: a role in information storage?; D.J. Willshaw & J.T. Buckingham: An assessment of Marr's theory of hippocampus as a temporary memory store; R.A. Hinde: The Croonian Lecture. The interdependence of the behavioural sciences; Index.

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