Brain mechanisms of behaviour in lower vertebrates

Contributors Preface Introduction P. R. Laming Part I. Evolutionary Perspectives in Vertebrate Neuroethology: 1. An introduction to the functional anatomy of the brains of fish and amphibians (with comments on the reptiles) P. R. Laming 2. Evolution of telencephalic function in lower vertebrates L. R. Aronson 3. Interspecific variability in brain organisation and its possible relation to evolutionary mechanisms S. O. E. Ebbesson Part II. Sensory Mechanisms and Behaviour: 4. The properties of the visual pathway of a common freshwater fish in relation to its visual behaviour D. M. Guthrie 5. The telstean optic tectum: neuronal substrates for behavioural mechanisms H. Vanegas 6. Behavioural and electrophysiological studies of chemosensory reactions in fish T. J. Hara 7. Neural coding of 'worms' and 'antiworms' in the brain of toads: the question of hardwired and softwired systems J. P. Ewert Part III. Sleep, Wakefulness and Arousal: 8. Sleep ontogeny in fish C. M. Shapiro, C. J. Woolf and D. Borsook 9. An electrophysiological study of wakefulness and sleep-like states in fish and amphibians I. G. Karmanova, A. I. Belich and S. G. Lazarev 10. The physiological basis of alert behaviour in fish P. R. Laming Part IV. Neuronal Substrates of Appetitive Behaviour: 11. Hypothalamic mechanisms of feeding fishes L. S. Demski 12. The telencephalon and reproductive behaviour in the teleost Macropodus opercularis: effects of lesions on the incidence of spawning and egg cannibalism R. E. Davis, J. Kassel and M. Martinez Part V. Learning and Memory Mechanisms: 13. Learning in teleost fish: role of the telencephalon N. Bohac Flood and J. B. Overmier 14. Electrical stimulation of the telencephalon and learning in a teleost fish G. E. Savage and D. E. Wright 15. Pituitary peptides and memory in fish D. Borsook, C. J. Woolf, D. Vellet, I. S. Abramson and C. M. Shapiro Index.