Psyco 486   Assignments and Evaluation Readings Lecture Notes

 

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Text

    Healy, S. (ed.) (1998) Spatial representation in animals. Oxford University Press: New York.

Additional Readings

Additional readings will be available at the Cameron Library Reserve Reading counter.

Schedule

    5, 10 Sept.: No readings
    12, 17, 19 Sept.: Chapter 2 (Places and landmarks: an arthropod perspective)
    24, 26 Sept.: Chapter 3 (Role of dead reckoning in navigation)
    1, 3 Oct.: Chapter 1 (Mechanisms of landmark use in mammals and birds)
    8, 10 Oct.: Chapter 5 (Spatial memory, landmark use and orientation in fish)
    15, 17 Oct.: Chapter 4 Spatial representations and homing pigeon navigation)
    22, 24 Oct.: Chapter 7 (Landmark use and the cognitive map in the rat)
    29, 31 Oct.: TBA (Auditory navigation and spatial representation)
    5, 7 Nov.: TBA (Pre-industrial human navigation)
    14, 19: Chapter 6 (Spatiotemporal aspects of avian long-distance migration)
    21, 26 Nov.: Chapter 8 (Neural mechanisms of spatial representations)
    28 Nov., 3 Dec.: TBA (Robotic and computer spatial representation)

 

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