Neurobiology of <U+001c>Umwelt How Living Beings Perceive the World /

At the beginning of the 20th century, German biologist Jakob von Uexk<U+00fc>ll created the concept of "Umwelt" to denote the environment as experienced by a subject. This concept of environment differs from the idea of passive surroundings and is defined not just by physical surroun...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Berthoz, A. (Editor), Christen, Yves. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
Series:Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences,
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505 0 # |a Foreword -- Anthropological physiology: von Uexk<U+00fc>ll, Portmann, Buytendijk -- Essentialist reasoning about the biological world -- The human brain "projects" upon the world, simplifying principles and rules for perception -- Umwelt: A psychomotor functional event -- The brain<U+0019>s view of the world depends on what it has to know -- The biology of variations in mammalian color vision -- The evolution of social categories -- What is the effect of affect on bonobo and chimpanzee problem solving?- Dogs (Canis familiaris) are adapted to receive human communication -- What do jays know about other minds and other times?- Blind as a bat? The sensory basis of orientation and navigation at night -- Point, line and counterpoint: from environment to fluid space -- Subject Index. 
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