Biological neural networks in invertebrate neuroethology and robotics /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Boston : Academic Press, c1993.
Description:xi, 417 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Neural networks, foundations to applications
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1399331
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Other authors / contributors:Beer, Randall D.
Ritzmann, Roy E.
McKenna, Thomas M.
ISBN:0120847280 (acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Neuroethology I:
  • Control of Leg Movement:
  • Integration of Individual Leg Dynamics with Whole Body Movement in Arthropod Locomotion
  • The Walking of Cockroaches.
  • Deceptive Simplicity
  • S.N. Zill,Load Compensatory Reactions in Insects:
  • Swaying and Stepping Strategies in Posture and Locomotion
  • Integration By Spiking and Nonspiking Local Neurons in the Locust Central Nervous System:
  • The Importance of Cellular and Synaptic Properties for Network Function
  • Neuroethology II: Control of Orientation
  • Multisensory Processing for Movement:
  • Antennal and Cercal Mediation of Escape Turning in the Cockroach
  • The Neural Organization of Cockroach Escape and Its Role in Context Dependent Orientation
  • Acoustic Startle:
  • An Adaptive Behavioral Act in Flying Insects
  • Organization of Goal-Oriented
  • Locomotion:
  • Pheromone-Modulated Flight Behaviour of Moths
  • A New Role for the Insect Mushroom
  • Bodies:
  • Place Memory and Motor Control
  • Modeling a Reprogrammable Central Pattern Generating Network
  • Voyages Through Weight Space:
  • Network Models of an Escape Reflex in the Leech
  • Simulations of Cockroach Locomotion and Escape
  • Lobster Walking as an Omnidirectional Robotic Ambulation Architecture.
  • Robotics
  • Legged Robots
  • A Robot that Walks:
  • Emergent Behavior from a Carefully Evolved Network
  • Modeling Neural Function at the Schema Level:
  • Implications and Results for Robotic Control