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Stebbins, William Cooper was born on June 6, 1929 in Watertown, New York, United States. Son of Jean Reginald and Kathleen (Heile) Stebbins.
( This immensely readable introduction to animal acousti...)
This immensely readable introduction to animal acoustics explains not only how animals hear but why they listen. It is a unique blend of audition, auditory anatomy, physics of sound, and methods of psychophysics, combined with behavior, natural history, and evolution. The Acoustic Sense of Animals is ideal for graduate and undergraduate courses, and for professionals in fields such as sensory physiology and animal behavior. In his broadly comparative approach, Stebbins explores the function of hearing for each animal in its particular ecological setting and the significance of communication for members of a species. He renders the evolution of hearing with special emphasis on the peripheral auditory system and basic auditory function. Although ample evidence is brought to bear, both from the laboratory and from field studies, the book is not burdened with excessive detail. The writing is crisp, and the references are tailored to those most useful for nonspecialists. The Acoustic Sense of Animals covers a complex field with balance and clarity within a solid evolutionary framework. Equally important, it conveys the controversy and excitement that will motivate students.
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(In May of 1969, the contributors to this book gathered at...)
In May of 1969, the contributors to this book gathered at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for three days to talk about their work in the behavioral analysis of animal sensory function and to share their research experiences in the laboratory with particular emphasis on methodology in behavioral training, testing, and instrumentation. It was their feeling and mine as a consequence of this meeting that we had sufficient substance to justify a book which we hoped would be of interest and even of pragmatic value to any biologic or biomedical scientist whose work deals with sensory function. Clearly, there is no aspect of an organism's behavior that is not to some extent con trolled by environmental stimuli. In recent years, due in large part to technical advances in microscopy and histology and in electrophysiology, there have been several extremely informative published proceedings from conferences and symposia concerned with some of the early and very basic stages in the reception of environmental energy by the sense organs and its processing by the nervous system. Transduction at the receptor and stimulus coding by the nervous system, cell membrane changes, and the basic structure of the receptor and related tissue as seen through the electron and phase contrast microscope have received major attention, and exciting new discoveries in sen sory function and structure have been reported. Ultimately, such discoveries must be related to an intact behaving organism.
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educator biological psychologist
Stebbins, William Cooper was born on June 6, 1929 in Watertown, New York, United States. Son of Jean Reginald and Kathleen (Heile) Stebbins.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1951. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1957.
Assistant professor psychology Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1957-1961. Postdoctoral fellow University Washington, Seattle, 1961-1963. Professor departments psychology and otorhinolaryngology University Michigan, since 1963, chairman graduate program in psychology, 1983-1991, associate dean Graduate School, since 1991, chair faculty senate, 1986-1987.
Member research committee American Academy Otolaryngology, 1973-1978. Member communicative disorders review committee National Institutes of Health, 1976-1980. Member advisory committee Primate Center Duke University, since 1979.
Member advisory committee Parmly Hearing Court Loyola University, Chicago, since 1982.
(In May of 1969, the contributors to this book gathered at...)
( This immensely readable introduction to animal acousti...)
(1970 433 pages. first edition. Hardbound, xlib with usual...)
Fellow American Psychological Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Acoustical Society of America. Member International Primatological Society, Association Research in Otolaryngology (president 1984-1985).
Married Kathryn Jones, August 1, 1953. Children: Elisabeth, Leslie, Rebecca.