Publisher's Synopsis
Volume 4 of "Physiology and General Biology" completes the collection of reviews of population biology, begun in volume 3, with surveys of unicellular organisms, phytopathogenic fungi, plants and population phenogenetics. The remainder of the volume is devoted to papers reviewing the physiology of higher nervous activity in man and animals, including contributions on the neurophysiology of the emotions and thought, the neuronal basis of associative learning and neuronal mechanisms of short-term memory.;The topics discussed in this part include the reflex-evaluative, switching, reinforcing and compensatory function of emotions, the neuro-anatomy and physiological brain organization of emotions and the neuro-physiological mechanisms of thought.