Please feel free to point me at papers, lecture notes, and books that would cover the basics as to allow a non specialist to start engaging with people whose occupation is to understand links between nervous system and behaviour in small animals / organisms (worms, insects, reptiles would be a good start).
Randolf Menzel (and all his co-workers over many years) have looked at honey bee behaviour and its neural underpinnings. Here the focus is on olfaction, learning, and navigation. Barbara Webb & Co. uses data from invertebrates to build robots.
e.g.
Wessnitzer et al. "A model of non-elemental olfactory learning in Drosophila" 2012 J Comput Neurosci
Menzel & Giurfa "Cognitive architecture of a mini-brain: the honeybee" TICS 2001
Giurfa M. "Cognition with few neurons: higher order learning in insects" TINS 2013
As well as the book by West-Eberhardt: Developmental Plasticity and Evolution.
Strausfeld's group is a good source as well, he worked with various invertebrates and compared brain structures (his website: http://neurosci.arizona.edu/strausfeld)
as well as John Hildebrand (same university) are good sources (and their papers)
Hello Herve,
You have very nicely described the field of Neuroethology- the study of the neural basis of natural behaviors. There is an International Society for Neuroethology that has a wonderful website (http://neuroethology2020.com/) that will introduce you to the field, the participants in the Society, opportunities for student travel and research grants, the schedule of upcoming meetings (I think it’s the most exciting Congress series of all I attend) and some of the outstanding research being currently done in the field.
Hope to see you in 2022 in Lisbon!
Peter
Hi again Herve,
Here are two short articles by Paul Katz- a former President of the ISN- one about the field itself, and the other a kind of "review" of the International Congress of Neuroethology that took place in Sapporo in 2014.
https://www.karger.com/Article/PDF/321719
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Masakazu_Konishi/publication/258420670_Comet_C2009_p1_garradd/links/561eac2a08ae50795aff3a62.pdf
Enjoy!
Peter
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