Tag Archives: Neurobiology
HOW DOES A POND SNAIL REMEMBER?
March 2007 Open access article in Journal of Experimental Biology on variability in one-trial aversive gustatory learning in Lymnea pond snails. Around 40% of snails show long-term memory (LTM). LTM formation was blocked by cooling the snails. If snails were starved, they couldn’t … Continue reading
Filed under Behaviour, Squidgy things
BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY MEETS NEUROBIOLOGY
March 2007 Article from PLoS (open access, by definition) explaining that there is a trade-off between performance and energetic costs in electrical signals recorded from single photoreceptors in different fly species. Big blowflies can transmit more information than tiny Drosophila, but their photoreceptors use … Continue reading
