Sensory Systems: II Senses Other than Vision

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: ADELMAN.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA Birkhäuser 1988, 1988
Edition:1st ed. 1988
Series:Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Responseto Odors
  • Vestibular System
  • Visual-Vestibular Interaction
  • Vomeronasal Organ and Nervus Terminalis
  • Contributors