What nervous systems do: Early evolution, input-output, and the skin brain thesis

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 67-85

  Keijzer, Fred ^a   van Duijn, Marc ^a   Lyon, Pamela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

early evolution; embodied cognition; excitable media; nerve nets; Nervous systems

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876183644     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712312465330     Document Type: Article

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