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

• 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,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Environmental sciences.; Biomedicine.; Environment, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85897-3

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.