Identifying the cells and circuits that underlie perception, behavior, and learning is a central
goal of contemporary neuroscience. Although techniques such as lesion analysis, functional …

The honeybee is a social insect that exhibits various social behaviors. To elucidate the
neural basis of honeybee behavior, we detected neural activity in freely-moving honeybee …

Honeybees organize a sophisticated society, and the workers transmit information about the
location of food sources using a symbolic dance, known as 'dance communication'. Recent …

Recent studies reveal that multisensory convergence can occur in early sensory cortical
areas. However, the behavioral importance of the multisensory integration in such early …

Many studies suggest that animals exhibit lateralized behaviors during aversive situations,
and almost all animals exhibit right hemisphere-dominant behaviors associated with fear or …

Rats were used in a successive negative contrast procedure to determine which brain
structures were activated by sucrose concentration downshifts, and on what day this …

Neural circuits that translate sensory information into motor commands are organized in a
feedforward manner converting sensory information into motor output. The superior …

Anti-predator behaviors are essential to survival for most animals. The neural bases of such
behaviors, however, remain largely unknown. Although honeybees commonly use their …

Since their detection in the early 1980s immediate-early genes (most of them being
inducible transcription factors) have been regarded as molecular keys to the orchestration of …

To better understand serotonin function in the primate brain, we examined the mRNA
expression patterns of all the 13 members of the serotonin receptor (5HTR) family, by in situ …