Perception and Motor Control in Birds: An Ecological Approach

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Being both broad - perception and motor organization - and narrow - just onegroup of animals - at the same time, this book presents a new unified

framework for understanding perceptuomotor organization, stressing the

importance of an ecological perspective. Section I reviews recent research on a variety of sensory and perceptual processes in birds, which all

involve subtle analyses of the relationships between species’ perceptual

mechanisms and their ecology and behaviour. Section II describes the variousresearch approaches - behavioural, neurophysiological, anatomical

and comparative - all dealing with the common problem of understanding how the activities of large numbers of muscles are coordinated to generate adaptive behaviour. Section III is concerned with a range of approaches to analyzing the links between perceptual and motor processes,

through cybernetic modelling, neurophysiological analysis,

and behavioural methods.