Visuomotor Coordination: Amphibians, Comparisons, Models, and Robots

by Michael A. Arbib and Jorg Peter Ewert

Book Overview

Various brain areas of mammals can phyletically be traced back to homologous structures in amphibians. The amphibian brain may thus be regarded as a kind of "microcosm" of the highly complex primate brain, as far as certain homologous structures, sensory functions, and assigned ballistic (pre-planned and pre-pro- grammed) motor and behavioral processes are concerned. A variety of fundamental operations that underlie perception, cognition, sensorimotor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306432307
• ISBN13: 9780306432309
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 923 Pages
• Weight: 3.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"