Sensory Systems: II: Senses Other Than Vision

ISBN-13: 9780817633967 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 148 str.

Adelman

Opis

This series of books, "Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience." consists of collections of subject-clustered articles taken from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. The Encyclopedia of Neuroscience is a reference source and compendium of more than 700 articles written by world authorities and covering all of neuroscience. We define neuroscience broadly as including all those fields that have as a primary goal the under- standing of how the brain and nervous system work to mediate/control behavior, including the mental behavior of humans. Those interested in specific aspects of the neurosciences, particular subject areas or specialties, can of course browse through the alphabetically arranged articles of the En- cyclopedia or use its index to find the topics they wish to read. However. for those readers-students, specialists, or others-who will find it useful to have collections of subject-clustered articles from the Encyclopedia, we issue this series of "Readings" in paperback. Students in neuroscience, psychology, medicine, biology, the mental health professions, and other disciplines will find that these collections provide concise summaries of cutting- edge research in rapidly advancing fields. The nonspecialist reader will find them useful summary statements of important neuroscience areas. Each collection was compiled, and includes an introductory essay, by an authority in that field.

Spis treści

Alliesthesia.- Auditory Prosthesis.- Auditory System.- Barrels, Vibrissae, and Topographic Representations.- Bird Navigation.- Chemotaxis, Bacterial: A Model for Sensory Receptor Systems.- Cutaneous Sensory System.- Echolocation.- Electric Organs, Fishes.- Electroreceptors and Electrosensing.- The Genital Sensory System.- Gravitational Effects on Brain and Behavior.- Hair Cells, Sensory Transduction.- Headache.- Infrared Sense.- Insect Communication, Intraspecific.- Kinesthesia, Kinesthetic Perception.- Lateral Line System.- Mechanoreceptors.- Motion Sense.- Motion Sickness.- Multisensory Convergence.- Muscle Receptors, Mammalian.- Muscle Sense.- Noci-Reception, Nociceptors, and Pain.- Olfaction.- Olfaction, Insect.- The Olfactory Bulb.- Olfactory Discrimination.- Olfactory Psychophysics.- Olfactory System, Turnover and Regeneration.- Pain, Animal.- Pain, Chemical Transmitter Concepts.- Pain, Intracerebral Stimulation as Treatment.- Pain, Neurophysiological Mechanisms of.- Pain, Phantom Limb.- Pain, Surgical Management of.- Pain Management, Focal Instillation of Opiates in the Central Nervous System Charles.- Pain Measurement by Signal Detection Theory.- Paraneurons.- Pheromones.- Pleasure (Sensory).- Proprioceptive Afferent Information and Movement Control.- Psychoacoustics.- Psychophysics.- Psychophysics and Neurophysiology.- Sensory Receptors, Cutaneous.- Sensory Transduction, Small-Signal Analysis of.- Sodium Appetite.- Somatosensory Cortex.- Sound Communication in Anurans (Frogs and Toads), Neuroethology of.- Sound Localization in the Owl.- Spinal Cord, the Dorsal Horn.- Taste.- Taste, Psychophysics.- Taste and Smell Disorders.- Taste Bud.- Temperature Regulation.- Thermoreceptors.- Time Perception.- Touch, Sensory Coding of, in the Human Hand.- Trigeminal Response to Odors.- Vestibular System.- Visual-Vestibular Interaction.- Vomeronasal Organ and Nervus Terminalis.- Contributors.