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Jewel Wasps manipulate specific brain centers to turn their prey into zombies
ResearchBlogging.org Jewel Wasps (Ampulex compressa) are amazing creatures and their form of parental care has received quite some attention not only by scientists but also from the general media, and rightfully so. This parasitoid wasp se...[more]
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Posted on Wednesday 14 April 2010 - 11:07:06

Is the sensorimotor hypothesis based on laboratory artifacts?

This post was chosen as an Editor's Selection for ResearchBlogging.orgMost neuroscientists would subscribe to the sensorimotor hypothesis, according to which brains mainly evaluate sensory input to compute motor output. For instance, Mike Mauk wrote now over ten years ago: “brain function ...[more]
sensorimotor hypothesis   actions   stimuli   responses   
Posted on Monday 13 June 2011 - 18:27:37

My guest blog for #NPGsfn11: habit formation as self-learning, an ancient organization of behavior?

This post was written for the "actionpotential" blog over at blogs.nature.com in their #NPGsfn11 guest blog series. You can see some editing that has happened in the post over there, this here is the original how I wrote...[more]
self-learning   habit formation   actions   goal-directed actions   foxp   
Posted on Sunday 13 November 2011 - 20:02:29

New on brembs.net: spontaneity

I gave the entire 'spontaneity' section a revamp. It's now just a short text providing some general background linking together the three publications concerning the ability of all animals to generate spontaneous behavio...[more]
spontaneity   spontaneous behavior   spontaneous activity   free will   actions   responses   active   brembs.net   
Posted on Sunday 17 April 2011 - 12:49:17

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