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Biology of Sensory Systems
- Publication Year:
- 2009
- Edition:
- 2nd
- Author:
- Smith, Christopher
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- ISBN:
- 978-0-47-051862-5
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Description
Completely revised, this book takes a molecular, evolutionary, and comparative approach, providing an overview of sensory systems in vertebrates, invertebrates and prokaryotes, with a strong focus on human senses.
Written by a renowned author with extensive teaching experience, the book covers, in six parts, the general features of sensory systems, the mechanosenses, the chemosenses, the senses which detect electromagnetic radiation, other sensory systems including pain, thermosensitivity and some of the minority senses and, finally, provides an outline and discussion of philosophical implications.
Over four hundred illustrations, boxes containing supplementary material and self-assessment questions and a full bibliography at the end of each part make this essential reading for undergraduate students of biology, zoology, animal physiology, neuroscience, anatomy and physiological psychology. It's also suitable for postgraduate students in more specialised courses such as vision sciences, optometry, neurophysiology, neuropathology, developmental biology.
New in this edition:
Written by a renowned author with extensive teaching experience, the book covers, in six parts, the general features of sensory systems, the mechanosenses, the chemosenses, the senses which detect electromagnetic radiation, other sensory systems including pain, thermosensitivity and some of the minority senses and, finally, provides an outline and discussion of philosophical implications.
Over four hundred illustrations, boxes containing supplementary material and self-assessment questions and a full bibliography at the end of each part make this essential reading for undergraduate students of biology, zoology, animal physiology, neuroscience, anatomy and physiological psychology. It's also suitable for postgraduate students in more specialised courses such as vision sciences, optometry, neurophysiology, neuropathology, developmental biology.
New in this edition:
- Greater emphasis on molecular biology and intracellular mechanisms
- New chapter on genomics and sensory systems
- Sections on TRP channels, synaptic transmission, evolution of nervous systems, arachnid mechanosensitive sensilla and photoreceptors, electroreception in the Monotremata, language and the FOXP2 gene, mirror neurons and the molecular biology of pain
- Updated passages on human olfaction and gustation
Details
- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Smith, Christopher
- ISBN:
- 978-0-47-051862-5
- Specialty:
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- Animal Sciences
- Zoology
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 2nd
- Pages:
- 534
- Publication Year:
- 2009