The Neurobiology Of Spatial Behaviour University Press Scholarship Online

This book explores the relationship between cellular processes and animal behavior. It does this by focusing on the domain of navigation, bringing together scientists from either side of the brain-behavior divide in an attempt to explain the linkage between spatial behavior and the underlying activity of neurons.The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour is organized into two sections. Section one deals with the so-called "higher" levels of description - studies of spatial behavior and the brain areas that might underlie such behavior. The section begins with insects, remarkably sophisticated navigators, and ends with humans, examining along the way issues such as whether animal brains contain maps and whether spatial and non-spatial information interact, and if so, how? Section two delves further into the brain and focuses on the mammalian representations of space and the role of place cells.These issues have far wider ramifications that simply helping us to understand the process of navigation. This system might provide a model for how other forms of knowledge, beliefs and intentions are encoded in neurons. As such, the book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including ethologists, psychologists, behavioral neuroscientists, computational modelers, physiological neuroscientists and molecular biologists. This Work Explores The Relationship Between Cellular Processes And Animal Behaviour. It Focuses On The Domain Of Navigation Bringing Together Scientists From Either Side Of The Brain-behaviour Divide In An Attempt To Explain The Linkage Between Spatial Behaviour And The Underlying Activity Of Neurons. Path Integration In Insects / Rüdiger Wehner And Mandyan Srinivasan -- A Role For The Hippocampus In Dead Reckoning: An Ethological Analysis Using Natural Exploratory And Food-carrying Tasks / Douglas Wallace, Dustin Hines, Joanna Gorny, And Ian Whishaw -- How Does Path Integration Interact With Olfaction, Vision, And The Presentation Of Space? / Ariane Etienne -- Contextual Cues And Insect Navigation / Thomas Collett, Karine Fauria, And Kyran Dale -- A Model Of Hippocampal-cortical-amygdala Interactions Based On Contextual Fear Conditioning / Brian Wiltgen And Michael Fanselow -- Do Animals Use Maps? / Sue Healy, Zoë Hodgson, And Victoria Braithwaite -- Comparative Approaches To Human Navigation / Ranxiao Frances Wang And Elizabeth Spelke -- Studies Of The Neural Basis Of Human Navigation And Memory / Tom Hartley, John King, And Neil Burgess -- The Head Direction System And Navigation / Paul Dudchenko -- Drawing Parallels Between The Behavioural And Neural Properties Of Navigation / Bruno Proucet, Pierre-pascal Lenck-santini, And Etienne Save -- Spatial Coding In The Hippocampal Formation: Input, Information Type, Plasticity, And Behaviour / Colin Lever [and Others] -- Hippocampal Remapping: Implications For Spatial Learning And Navigation / James Knierim -- Navigation In The Moving World / André Fenton And Jan Bures -- Reading Cognitive And Other Maps: How To Avoid Getting Buried In Thought / Robert Biegler -- The Representation Of Spatial Context / Michael Anderson [and Others] -- Place Cells: A Framework For Episodic Memory? / Emma Wood. Edited By K.j. Jeffery. Includes Bibliographic References And Index. Contents......Page 6 List of contributors......Page 8 Introduction......Page 11 Part I: From behaviour to circuitry......Page 36 Introduction to Part I......Page 38 1 Path integration in insects......Page 44 2 A role for the hippocampus in dead reckoning: an ethological analysis using natural exploratory and food-carrying tasks......Page 66 3 How does path integration interact with olfaction, vision, and the representation of space?......Page 83 4 Contextual cues and insect navigation......Page 102 5 A model of hippocampal–cortical–amygdala interactions based on contextual fear conditioning......Page 118 6 Do animals use maps?......Page 139 7 Comparative approaches to human navigation......Page 154 8 Studies of the neural basis of human navigation and memory......Page 179 Part II: From circuits to cells......Page 200 Introduction to Part II......Page 202 9 The head direction system and navigation......Page 208 10 Drawing parallels between the behavioural and neural properties of navigation......Page 222 11 Spatial coding in the hippocampal formation: input, information type, plasticity and behaviour......Page 234 12 Hippocampal remapping: implications for spatial learning and navigation......Page 261 13 Navigation in the moving world......Page 275 14 Reading cognitive and other maps: how to avoid getting buried in thought......Page 294 15 The representation of spatial context......Page 309 16 Place cells:a framework for episodic memory?......Page 330 C......Page 346 F......Page 347 L......Page 348 P......Page 349 S......Page 350 Y......Page 351 This book explores the relationship between cellular processes and animal behaviour. It does this by focusing on the domain of navigation, bringing together scientists from either side of the brain-behaviour divide in an attempt to explain the linkage between spatial behaviour and the underlying activity of neurons. The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour is organised into two sections. Section one deals with the so-called'higher'levels of description - studies of spatial behaviour and the brain areas that might underlie such behaviour. The section begins with insects, remarkably sophisticated navigators, and ends with humans, examining along the way issues such as whether animal brains contain maps and whether spatial and non-spatial information interact, and if so, how? Section two delves further into the brain and focuses on the mammalian representation of space and the role of place cells. These issues have far wider ramifications that simply helping us to understand the process of navigation. This system might provide a model for how other forms of knowledge, beliefs and intentions are encoded in neurons. As such, the book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including ethologists, psychologists, behavioural neuroscientists, computational modellers, physiological neuroscientists and molecular biologists. This book explores the relationship between cellular processes and animal behavior. It does this by focusing on the domain of navigation, bringing together scientists from either side of the brain-behavior divide in an attempt to explain the linkage between spatial behavior and the underlying activity of neurons. The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour is organized into two sections. Section one deals with the so-called "higher" levels of description - studies of spatial behavior and the brain areas that might underlie such behavior. The section begins with insects, remarkably sophisticated navigators, and ends with humans, examining along the way issues such as whether animal brains contain maps and whether spatial and non-spatial information interact, and if so, how? Section two delves further into the brain and focuses on the mammalian representations of space and the role of place cells. These issues have far wider ramifications that simply helping us to understand the process of navigation. This system might provide a model for how other forms of knowledge, beliefs and intentions are encoded in neurons. As such, the book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including ethologists, psychologists, behavioral neuroscientists, computational modelers, physiological neuroscientists and molecular biologists. The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour is a crucial new reference in the dynamic field of navigation. Kate Jeffery has assembled the creme de la creme of authors on current issues in spatial cognition and, in doing so, has produced the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference on the neurobiological and behavioural mechanisms of navigation. This book is essential reading for anyone who is curious about how human and non-human animals find their way about, and how space is represented in the brain. Dr. Nicola S. Clayton, Reader in Comparative Cognition, Clare College, Cambridge. This book explores the relationship between cellular processes and animal behaviour. It does this by focusing on the domain of navigation, bringing together scientists from either side of the brain-behaviour divide in an attempt to explain the linkage between spatial behaviour and the underlying activity of neurons "This book explores the relationship between cellular processes and animal behaviour. It does this by focusing on the domain of navigation, bringing together scientists from either side of the brain-behaviour divide in an attempt to explain the linkage between spatial behaviour and the underlying activity of neurons." "This book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, including ethologists, psychologists, behavioural neuroscientists, computational modelers, physiological neuroscientists and molecular biologists."--BOOK JACKET