Edited by Marc D. Hauser and Mark Konishi The MIT Press, 1999 FROM THE BACK COVER When animals, including humans, communicate, they convey information and express their perceptions of the world. Because different organisms are able to produce and perceive different signals, the animal world contains a diversity of communication systems. Based on the approach laid out in the 1950s by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen, this book looks at animal communication from the four perspectives of mechanisms, ontogeny, function, and phylogeny. The book's great strength is its broad comparative perspective, which enables the reader to appreciate the diversity of solutions to particular problems of signal design and perception. For example, although the neural circuitry underlying the production of acoustic signals is different in frogs, songbirds, bats, and humans, each involves a set of dedicated pathways designed to solve particular problems of communicative efficiency. Such comparative findings form the basis of a conceptual framework for understanding the mechanisms underlying communication systems and their evolution. Marc D. Hauser is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard University. He is the author of The Evolution of Communication (MIT Press, 1996). Mark Konishi is Bing Professor of Behavioral Biology at the California Institute of Technology. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ix I. MECHANISMS OF COMMUNICATION 1 1. Vocal Communication in Xenopus laevis 9 Darcy B. Kelley and Martha L. Tobias 2. The Motor Basis of Vocal Performance in Songbirds 37 Roderick A. Suthers 3. The Anatomy and Timing of Vocal Learning in Birds 63 Fernando Nottebohm 4. The Dance Language of Honeybees: Recent Findings and Problems 111 Axel Michelsen 5. Processing Species-specific Calls by Combination-sensitive Neurons in an Echolocating Bat 133 Jagmeet S. Kanwal 6. A Cellular Basis for Reading Minds from Faces and Actions 159 David I. Perrett 7. Neural Systems for Recognizing Emotions in Humans 187 Ralph Adolphs 8. The Neuroendocrine Basis of Seasonal Changes in Vocal Behavior among Songbirds 213 Gregory F. Ball 9. Testosterone, Aggression, and Communication: Ecological Bases of Endocrine Phenomena 255 John C. Wingfield, Jerry D. Jacobs, Kiran Soma, Donna L. Maney, Kathleen Hunt, Deborah Wisti-Peterson, Simone Meddle, Marilyn Ramenofsky, and Kimberly Sullivan II. ONTOGENY OF COMMUNICATION 285 10. On Innateness: Are Sparrow Songs "Learned" or "Innate"? 293 Peter Marler 11. Making Ecological Sense of Song Development by Songbirds 319 12. Song- and Order-selective Auditory Responses Emerge in Neurons of the Songbird Anterior Forebrain during Vocal Learning 343 Allison J. Doupe and Michele M. Solis 13. Genetics of Canary Song Learning: Innate Mechanisms and Other Neurobiological Considerations 369 Paul C. Mundinger 14. Production, Usage, and Response in Nonhuman Primate Vocal Development 391 Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney 15. Speech, Language, and the Brain: Innate Preparation for Learning 419 Patricia K. Kuhl III. EVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATION 451 16. Signal Evolution in Electric Communication 461 Carl D. Hopkins 17. Complementary Explanations for Existing Phenotypes in an Acoustic Communication System 493 Andrew H. Bass, Deana Bodnar, and Margaret A. Marchaterre 18. Reproductive Character Displacement and Other Sources of Selection on Acoustic Communication Systems 515 H. Carl Gerhardt 19. Phylogenetic Inference and the Evolution of Communication in Tungara Frogs 535 Michael J. Ryan and A. Stanley Rand 20. Categorical Perception of Behaviorally Relevant Stimuli by Crickets 559 Robert A. Wyttenbach and Ronald R. Hoy 21. Functions of Song Variation in Song Sparrows 577 William A. Searcy and Stephen Nowicki 22. The Evolution of a Lopsided Brain: Asymmetries Underlying Facial and Vocal Expressions in Primates 597 Marc D. Hauser 23. Mechanisms Underlying the Vocalizations of Nonhuman Primates 629 Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth 24. Communication and Tool Use in Chimpanzees: Cultural and Social Contexts 645 Tetsuro Matsuzawa List of Contributors 673 Name Index 675 Subject Index 689 ISBN: 0262582236 (paper) $40.00 USD WHERE TO ORDER: The MIT Press - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142-1493 Contact: David Cecere, The MIT Press Phone: (617) 258-0603 Email: dcecere@mit.edu Website: http://mitpress.mit.edu Email: mitpress-orders@mit.edu Phone: (800) 405-1619 Posted Date: 8/18/2003
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