PART I. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CELLULAR ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR.- Neurons as the Building Blocks of Behavior.- PART II. SENSORY WORLDS.- Echolocation in Bats.- Prey Location in Barn Owls.- Feature Analysis in Toads.- PART III. MOTOR STRATEGIES .- Mate Calling in Crickets.- Flight in Locusts.- Escape Behavior in the Crayfish.- PART IV. BEHAVIORAL PLASTICITY.- The Development of Learning in Songbirds.- Associative Learning in Honeybees.- Learning and Memory in Simple Reflex Systems in Aplysia.- Molecular Genetics of Learning and Memory in Drosophila .- Spatial Navigation in Rats.
Thomas J. Carew is Bren Professor and Chair of the Department of
Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California, Irvine.
Dr. Carew has been awarded endowed chairs at both Yale University
and the University of California. Dr. Carew's research interests
focus on the cellular and molecular basis of learning and memory,
the neuronal basis of behavior, and mechanisms of information
processing in the nervous system.
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