Sensory Processing in Aquatic Environments

by T. Bullock

Foreword * Preface * Introduction * Introduction to Part 1: Navigation and Communication * Sound Detection Mechanisms and Capabilities of Teleost Fishes * Trails in Open Sensory Cues in Salmon Migration * Detection and Use of the Earth's Magnetic Field by Aquatic Vertebrates * Introduction to Part 2: Finding Food and Other Localised Sources * Physical Principles of Electric, Magnetic, and Near-Field Acoustic Orientation in Early Aquatic Vertebrates * Active Electrolocation and its Neural Processing in Mormyrid Electric Fish * Processing of Dipole and More Complex Hydrodynamic Stimuli Under Still- and Running Water Conditions * Information Processing by the Lateral Line System * Retinal Sampling and the Visual Field in Fishes * Introduction to Part 3: The Coevolution of Signal and Sense * Underwater Sound Generation and Acoustic Reception in Fishes with Some Notes on Frogs * The Design of Color Signals and Color Vision in Fishes * Color Vision in Fishes and Its Neural Basis * Chemically Mediated Strategies to Counter Predation * Mechanisms of Ultraviolet Polarization Vision in Fish * Aspects of the Sensory Ecology of Cephalopods * Recent Progress in Aquatic Vertebrate Olfaction * Introduction to Part 4: Visual Adaptations to Limited Light Environments * Eye Design and Vision in Deep-Sea Fishes * Spectral Sensitivity Tuning in the Deep-Sea * Visual Adaptations in Chromatic, Developmental and Temporal Aspects * Introduction to Part 5: Central Coordination and Evolution of Sensory Inputs * Sensory Systems and Brain Evolution Across the Commonalities and Constraints * Extracting Behaviorally Important Signals from Noise * In a Fish's Mind's The Visual Pallium of Teleosts * Paddlefish and Parallel Evolution of Passive Electroreception in a Rostral Bill Organ * Index

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003