Behavioral Neurobiology starts off with an introduction. The next chapter presents the fundamentals of neurobiology. The text also gives a brief history on the study of animal behavior and its neural basis, and examines orienting movements. Other topics covered include active orientation and localization, the neuronal control of motor output, the neuronal processing of sensory information, and sensorimotor integration. The text then goes on to consider neuromodulation and the accommodation of motivational changes in behavior, circadian rhythms and biological clocks, and large-scale navigation in terms of migration and homing, communication, and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory.
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Edited by George J. Augustine, Jennifer M. Groh, Scott A. Huettel, Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, and Leonard E. White
Neuroscience is made up of five main units. Unit I looks at neural signaling, and includes descriptions on electrical signals of nerve cells, ion channels and transporters, synaptic transmission, and synaptic plasticity. The second unit is about sensation and sensory processing. It looks at the auditory system, the vestibular system, and the chemical senses. Unit III is about movement and control. Unit IV is concerned with the changing brain and examines brain development, neural circuits, and experience-dependent plasticity in the developing brain. The last unit looks at complex brain functions and cognitive neuroscience. Included here are examinations on attention, memory, emotion, thinking, planning, speech, and language.
