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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 95 15:44:58 MDT
From: Peter Todd
CALL FOR PAPERS (please post) ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR Journal Special Issue on ENVIRONMENT STRUCTURE AND BEHAVIOR Guest editor: Peter Todd Submission Deadline: 1 October 1995. Adaptive Behavior is an international journal published by MIT Press; Editor-in-Chief: Jean-Arcady Meyer, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.
By adaptive behavior we usually mean behavior that adapts to the varying environmental structures that an individual encounters. Thus, to understand adaptive, environmentally embedded behavior, we must understand not only an organism's behavior-generating system, but also the structure of the organism's environment. Much of that environment can be composed of the shifting, behaving flux of members of the organism's own species, or members of other species in the same ecosystem. But a significant proportion of relevant environmental structure can comprise more static spatiotemporal patterns of plants, water, and other resources, inanimate barriers, temperature and other climatic gradients, and the like. For this special issue, we invite papers that consider the impact of these latter non-social kinds of environment structure on the behavior of natural or artificial adaptive organisms. Relevant topics include methods for analyzing and categorizing environments and their behavioral implications; consequences of biological and physical environment structures; interactions and feedback between behavior-affecting environments and environment-affecting behaviors; constructed environments and culture; and using environmental design to control behavior in applied settings. Authors are encouraged to emphasize the relevance of their research to both natural and artificial systems.
Submitted papers should be delivered by 1 October 1995. Manuscripts should be typed or laser-printed in English (with American spelling preferred), doublespaced, and between 10000 and 15000 words in length counting 500 words per full-page figure. Electronic submissions are also possible, in plain text or Postscript; please contact Peter Todd by email at the address below for arrangements.
Authors intending to submit are also encouraged to contact the guest editor as soon as possible to discuss paper ideas and suitability for this issue. Copies of the complete Adaptive Behavior Instructions to Contributors are available on request--also see the Adaptive Behavior journal's home page at http://www.ens.fr:80/bioinfo/www/francais/AB.html .
For paper submissions, send five (5) copies of submitted papers (hardcopy only) to:
Peter M. Todd Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Leopoldstrasse 24 80802 Munich GERMANY
For electronic submissions, contact the guest editor first.
Email: ptodd@synapse.psy.du.edu Phone: (303)871-4995 Fax: (303)871-4747 ```
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