Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology

Dhein, Kelle

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“…For papers that discuss the far-reaching influence of Frisch's training method, see Kelber et al 2003;Kelber & Osorio 2010;Avarguès-Weber and Giurfa 2014;Dyer et al 2015;Van Nest and Moore 2018. 7 For commentary on the feud, see Warner 1931;Tinbergen 1951Tinbergen /1969Frisch 1967, on 48-49;Thorpe 1983, on 198;Hölldobler 1985;Menzel and Backhaus 1989;Autrum 1990;Kelber et al 2003;Kelber and Osorio 2010;Munz 2016, on 32-51;Dröscher 2016;Dhein 2021, on 743-749.…”

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From Karl von Frisch to Neuroethology: A Methodological Perspective on the Frischean Tradition's Expansion into Neuroethology**

Dhein

2022

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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This paper examines a tradition of eusocial insect research stemming from the Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch. As I show in this paper, one of the most enduring features of the Frischean tradition has been an experimental methodology developed by Frisch in the early 1910s. By tracing this methodology's use through Frisch's student, Martin Lindauer, and two of Lindauer's students, Rüdiger Wehner and Randolf Menzel, this paper illuminates a surprising aspect of ethology's development during the last half of the 20 th century. Namely, it sheds light on how the Frischean tradition, a tradition that had a complicated relationship with ethology since the discipline's formation in the 1930s, produced scientists who became leading figures in neuroethology, the most prominent contemporary field of behavioral research to retain the label of "ethology." Some of the features that distinguished Frisch's training method from the program of classical ethology and the work of his contemporaries later helped his academic descendants adapt the method to the neuroethological program.

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From Karl von Frisch to Neuroethology: A Methodological Perspective on the Frischean Tradition's Expansion into Neuroethology**

Dhein

2022

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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Controlling Animals: Carl von Heß, Karl von Frisch, and the Study of Color Vision in Fish

Hoffmann

2024

Archimedes

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In the 1910s, physiologist Carl von Heß and zoologist Karl von Frisch studied color vision in fish. In what follows, I first show what types of control are involved in their experiments. I then address a rarely discussed issue—the fact that, in these experiments and many others, the animals must be stimulated in order to actively participate. I thus distinguish between two types of control, environmental and behavioral control of activities. Finally, I make a point that goes beyond the problems of experimental control: in studying sensory abilities, it is impossible to directly determine the content of perception. In this sense, these experimental results are, in principle, difficult to control.

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Animal Attention in the Context of Zoosemiotics

Tarrikas

2024

Biosemiotics

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Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology

Cited by 4 publications

References 74 publications

From Karl von Frisch to Neuroethology: A Methodological Perspective on the Frischean Tradition's Expansion into Neuroethology**

From Karl von Frisch to Neuroethology: A Methodological Perspective on the Frischean Tradition's Expansion into Neuroethology**

Controlling Animals: Carl von Heß, Karl von Frisch, and the Study of Color Vision in Fish

Animal Attention in the Context of Zoosemiotics

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