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| Prep. #7: controls are important |
| This is preparation number seven in my attempts to establish operant learning in isolated leech ganglia and it's a control preparation, which means I'm just stimulating it every three minutes at ganglion 18 for an hour a...[more] |
| leech operant nervous system neuroscience learning decision-making |
| Posted on Thursday 09 September 2010 - 01:47:35 |
| Aplysia operant conditioning @ Scholarpedia |
| Recycling a review article from 2003 as base, I've started to write a Scholarpedia article on Aplysia operant conditoning. While the content concerning operant reward learning is basically complete, this is currently sti...[more] |
| Aplysia feeding operant Scholarpedia neuroscience learning memory |
| Posted on Thursday 12 July 2007 - 08:43:48 |
| Journal of Neurosience accepts our manuscript |
| Our work on the biogenic amine octopamine influencing the initiation and maintenance of flight in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster was accepted by the Journal of Neuroscience last week. This study is a collaboration...[more] |
| octopamine flight biogenic amine drosophila neuroscience |
| Posted on Monday 20 August 2007 - 14:33:11 |
| Reward amine also orchestrates locomotion in the fruit fly |
| Two days from now, our paper on octopamine and flight performance will appear in the Journal of Neuroscience. You can get the PDF file already today from here. Very soon, I'll also have an HTML version ready with all the...[more] |
| Drosophila flight octopamine biogenic amine neuroscience reward |
| Posted on Monday 08 October 2007 - 09:21:09 |
| Free will and culpability before the law |
| The next speaker at this meeting here was Reinhard Merkel, professor of law at the university in Hamburg. He started with the distinction between different kinds of freedom. He cited Kant, but only as a reference to what...[more] |
| free will culpability law jurisprudence neuroscience meeting meissen |
| Posted on Saturday 19 November 2011 - 16:40:01 |
| Octopamine paper in HTML and color |
| Our paper on octopamine and flight performance appeared today in the Journal of Neuroscience. In addition to the PDF file, you can now also get the paper in HTML format with all the figures in color. Both original versio...[more] |
| Drosophila flight octopamine biogenic amine neuroscience reward |
| Posted on Thursday 11 October 2007 - 18:53:41 |
| Degeneracy |
 Probably the most important common denominator of evolutionary theory and neuroscience is degeneracy. The degeneracy found in gene networks and the degeneracy found in the organization of brains. See e.g. ...[more] |
| evolution creationism robustness degeneracy neuroscience |
| Posted on Friday 09 May 2008 - 12:40:53 |
| No brain is too small for a memory |
 I'm trying to catch up with my backlog of research news (~600 unread messages) and what do you know, the first one is already worth blogging about! Researchers from the Brooklyn College in New York ...[more] |
| classical conditioning cephalopods invertebrates learning memory neuroscience brain |
| Posted on Friday 24 October 2008 - 18:24:24 |
| Q&A with yours truly in Current Biology |
| The journal Current Biology has published a short Q&A with me today (local copy). I had briefly discussed the last two questions on FriendFeed, so they may seem familiar to you. It feels more than a little strange to...[more] |
| current biology North Q&A open access publishing evolution neuroscience |
| Posted on Tuesday 27 July 2010 - 18:17:39 |
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