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Neural Mechanisms of Startle Behavior (Hardcover, 1984 ed.)
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Neural Mechanisms of Startle Behavior (Hardcover, 1984 ed.)
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In the past fifteen years there has been considerable interest in
neural circuits that initiate behavior patterns. For many types of
behaviors, this involves decision-making circuits whose primary
elements are neither purely sensory nor motor, but represent a
higher order of neural pro cessing. Of the large number of studies
on such systems, analyses of startle circuits compose a major
portion, and have been carried out on systems found throughout the
animal kingdom. Startle has been an im portant model because of the
reliability of the behavioral act for laboratory study and the
accessibility of the underlying neural circuitry. However, probably
because of the breadth of the subject, this material has never been
reviewed in a comprehensive way that presents the elements com mon
to startle circuits in the different animal systems in which they
occur. This book presents a diversity of approaches based on a
broad back ground of animal groups ranging from the earliest
nervous systems in cnidarians to the most recently evolved and
advanced in mammals. The behaviors themselves are all short
latency, fast motor acts, when consid ered on the time scale of the
organism, and involve avoidance or evasion, although in some cases
we do not yet completely understand their natural role. These
behaviors occur in response to stimuli that have sudden or
unexpected onset."
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