Spatial Orientation: The Spatial Control of Behavior in Animals and Man

✍ Scribed by Hermann Schone; Camilla Strausfeld

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 366
• Series: Princeton Series in Neurobiology and Behavior; 588
• Edition: Course Book
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This major study of animal orientation in space launches the Princeton Series in Neurobiology and Behavior. Bringing together for the first time the important work done on spatial orientation over the past twenty-five years, and reviewing research up to and including recent attempts to apply the methods of cybernetics, Hermann Schone discusses the most significant concepts in the control of position and movement in space.

Originally published in 1984.

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Key to Symbols
Introduction
1. Orientation: Its Meaning and Scope
2. Physiology of Orientation
3. Particulars of the Sensory Modalities
References
Index