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Anthropological Physiology: von Uexküll, Portmann, Buytendijk

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Neurobiology of “Umwelt”

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The notion of Umwelt originates in a (continental, ‘anthropological’) tradition of studying the behaviour of animals in their natural environment, contrasting with the (anglo-saxon, behaviorist) tradition of breeding mice in the laboratory and testing their achievements in mazes, that is, in artificial environments. Chapter 1 outlines the contributions of three major European scientists to modern psychophysiology and ethology.

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Fagot-Largeault, A. (2009). Anthropological Physiology: von Uexküll, Portmann, Buytendijk. In: Berthoz, A., Christen, Y. (eds) Neurobiology of “Umwelt”. Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85897-3_1

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