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Brain Evolution and Cognition
ISBN: 978-0-471-33170-4
Hardcover
616 pages
December 2000
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INTRODUCTION.

Problems in the Study of Brain Evolution and Cognition (M. Wulliman and G. Roth).

DEVELOPMENT AND ADULT BRAIN ORGANIZATION IN EVOLUTION.

Brain Phenotypes and Early Regulatory Genes: The Bauplan of the Metazoan Central Nervous System (M. Wulliman).

The Echinoderm Nervous System and its Phylogenetic Interpretation (T. Heinzeller and U. Welsch).

Evolution of Vertebrate Motor Systems (H. ten Donkelaar).

Sensory System Evolution in Vertebrates (W. Hodos & A. Butler).

Evolution of the Forebrain in Tetrapods (T. Shimizu) Neocortical Macrocircuits (R. Nieuwenhuys).

Hunting in Barn Owls: Peripheral and Neurobiological Specializations and their General Relevance in Neural Computation (H. Wagner).

Evolution and Devolution: The Case of Bolitoglossine Salamanders (G. Roth & D. Wake).

Evolutionary Constraints of Large Telencephala (G. Rehkämper, et al.).

COGNITION: FROM NEURAL BASIS TO BEHAVIOR.

Brain and Cognitive Function in Telecost Fishes (L. Demski and J. Beaver).

Cognition in Insects: The Honeybee as a Study Case (R. Menzel, et al.).

Insect Brain (N. Strausfeld).

Conservation in the Neurology and Psychology of Cognition in Vertebrates (E. Macphail).

Multimodal Areas of the Avian Forebrain-Blueprints for Cognition? (O. Güntürkün & D. Durstewitz).

Cognition of Birds as Products of Evolved Brains (J. Delius, et al.).

What can the Cerebral Cortex do Better than Other Parts of the Brain? (A. Schüz).

Evolution and Complexity of the Human Brain: Some Organizing Principles (M. Hofman).

The Evolution of Neural and Behavioral Complexity (H. Jerison).

The Evolution of Consciousness (G. Roth).