Let me recommend studies by several old professors of mine (at City
College, NYU, and Museum of Natural Hisory in NYC): T.C.Schneirla,
Daniel Lehrman, Jay Rosenblatt, and Ethel Tobach. You should include
sources 40 yrs old in your literature search--only Jay and Ethel are
still alive and publishing.
This group has tried to see how minimal genetically-determined
tendencies might interact with prenatal and postnatal interactions with
the organism's environment in gradual development of what we eventually
recognize (when developed enough) as "instinctive" or species-specific
behaviors.
Frank LeFever
New York Neuropsychology Group
In <33C6EB80.AEBDC10 at kais.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Yusuke Uchiyama
<yusuke at kais.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:
>>Bradley Monroe Cooke wrote:
>>>> Hello all.
>>>> I'm interested in instincts, innate perceptual biases and their
basis in
>> the brain. How does one begin to discern the computational rules and
>> structures that underlie these abilities? Can these qualities be
discerned
>> through developmental neurobiology? I'm particularly interested in
the
>> neural origins of sexual attraction and orientation.
>>>> --
>> bradley cooke
>>>> you are the eyes of the world.
>> --Robert Hunter
>>I'm interested in instincts, too. I'm particularly interested in the
>neural basis of the evolution of social behaviors of insects,
including
>mating.
>>I think that we can disthern those qualities which you mentioned by
>developmental neurobiology, and we can discern the principle which
gave
>rise to society.
>>Yusuke Uchiyama
