Psychological Mechanisms in Animal Communication

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bee, Mark A. (Editor), Miller, Cory T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Animal Signals and Communication, 5
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Behavioral sciences.; Evolutionary biology.; Neurobiology.; Cognitive psychology.; Life Sciences.; Behavioral Sciences.; Cognitive Psychology.; Evolutionary Biology.

This book analyzes the psychological mechanisms critical to animal communication. The topics covered range from single neurons to broad-scale phylogenetic patterns, shedding new light on the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processes that underlie the communicative behaviors of signalers and recei...

Table of Contents:

• Signaler and Receiver Psychology
• Avian Auditory Processing at Four Different Scales: Variation Among Species, Seasons, Sexes and Individuals
• Perceptual and Neural Mechanisms of Auditory Scene Analysis in the European Starling
• Mate Searching Animals as Model Systems for Understanding Perceptual Grouping
• Why Complex Signals Matter, Sometimes
• Communication through a Window of Error: Proportional Processing and Signal Categorization
• Social Recognition in Anurans
• Referents and Semantics in Animal Vocalizations
• Social Concepts and Communication in Non-human Primates
• Decisions to Communicate in Primate Ecological and Social Landscapes
• Overcoming Sensory Uncertainty: Factors Affecting Foraging Decisions in Frog-eating Bats.