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Vision, brain, and behavior in birds
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  • Vision, brain, and behavior in birds
  • Written by author H. Philip Zeigler and Hans-Joachim Bischof
  • Published by Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1993., 1994/01/04
  • The visual capacities of birds rival even those of primates, and their visual system probably reflects the operation of a ground plan common to all vertebrates. This book provides the first comprehensive and current review of considerable progress made ov
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In Memoriam: Monika Remy (1949-1992)
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Preface
Introduction
I The Avian Eye View 1
Introduction 1
1 Producing the Image 5
2 Exploring the Image 25
3 Constructing the Three-Dimensional Image 47
4 The Visual Capabilities of Birds 63
5 Color Vision of Birds 77
II Functional Anatomy of the Avian Visual System 99
Introduction 99
6 The Avian Visual System and the Evolution of the Neocortex 103
7 Anatomy of the Avian Thalamofugal Pathway 115
8 The Organization of the Tectofugal Pathway in Birds: A Comparative Review 137
9 Binocular Processing in Frontal-Eyed Birds 159
III Development of the Avian Visual System 169
Introduction 169
10 Developmental Anatomy of the Chick Retinotectal Projection 173
11 Development, Plasticity, and Differential Organization of Parallel Processing of Visual Information in Birds 195
12 Development of the Tectofugal Visual System of Normal and Deprived Zebra Finches 207
13 Developmental Mechanisms of Lateralization 227
IV Visuomotor Mechanisms 243
Introduction 243
14 Eye Movements, Head Movements, and Gaze Stabilization in Birds 245
15 Sensorimotor Mechanisms and Pecking in the Pigeon 265
16 Control of Pecking Response Topography by Stimulus-Reinforcer and Response-Reinforcer Contingencies 285
17 Visual Mechanisms of Prey Capture in Water Birds 301
V Vision and Cognition 317
Introduction 317
18 Lateralization and Strategies of Viewing in the Domestic Chick 319
19 Two Eyes and One World: Studies of Interocular and Intraocular Transfer in Birds 333
20 What Can We Learn from Experiments on Pigeon Concept Discrimination? 351
21 Beyond Sensation: Visual Cognition in Pigeons 377
22 Vision, Cognition, and the Avian Hippocampus 391
Species Index 409
Subject Index 411


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