Resynthesizing behavior through phylogenetic refinement

Is coding a relevant metaphor for the brain?

(2019) Romain Brette   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Amphioxus, motion detection, and the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate retinotectal map

(2018) Thurston Lacalli   EvoDevo

Economic Choice as an Untangling of Options into Actions

(2018) Seng Bum Michael Yoo et al.   NEURON

The Basal Ganglia Do Not Select Reach Targets but Control the Urgency of Commitment

(2017) David Thura et al.   NEURON

Molecular regionalization of the developing amphioxus neural tube challenges major partitions of the vertebrate brain

(2017) Beatriz Albuixech-Crespo et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Circuits for Action and Cognition: A View from the Superior Colliculus

(2017) Michele A. Basso et al.   Annual Review of Vision Science

Basal Ganglia Output Controls Active Avoidance Behavior

(2016) Sebastian Hormigo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

From nerve net to nerve ring, nerve cord and brain — evolution of the nervous system

(2016) Detlev Arendt et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Ethological Action Maps: A Paradigm Shift for the Motor Cortex

(2016) Michael S.A. Graziano   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Navigating the Affordance Landscape: Feedback Control as a Process Model of Behavior and Cognition

(2016) Giovanni Pezzulo et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The CNS connectome of a tadpole larva of Ciona intestinalis (L.) highlights sidedness in the brain of a chordate sibling

(2016) Kerrianne Ryan et al.   eLife

Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for “top-down” effects

(2015) Chaz Firestone et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Serotonin controlling feeding and satiety

(2015) Jörg-Peter Voigt et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

The Lamprey Pallium Provides a Blueprint of the Mammalian Motor Projections from Cortex

(2015) Francisco M. Ocaña et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The basal ganglia downstream control of brainstem motor centres—an evolutionarily conserved strategy

(2015) Sten Grillner et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Evolution of posterior parietal cortex and parietal-frontal networks for specific actions in primates

(2015) Jon H. Kaas et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Evolution of basal deuterostome nervous systems

(2015) L. Z. Holland   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Molecular clocks and the early evolution of metazoan nervous systems

(2015) G. A. Wray   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

From damage response to action potentials: early evolution of neural and contractile modules in stem eukaryotes

(2015) Thibaut Brunet et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Liberating Lévy walk research from the shackles of optimal foraging

(2015) Andy Reynolds   Physics of Life Reviews

Tectal microcircuit generating visual selection commands on gaze-controlling neurons

(2015) Andreas A. Kardamakis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society

(2015) Thomas T. Hills et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Developmental mechanisms channeling cortical evolution

(2015) Barbara L. Finlay et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Dopamine modulates novelty seeking behavior during decision making.

(2014) Vincent D. Costa et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Deliberation and Commitment in the Premotor and Primary Motor Cortex during Dynamic Decision Making

(2014) David Thura et al.   NEURON

Hierarchical random walks in trace fossils and the origin of optimal search behavior

(2014) D. W. Sims et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The bilaterian forebrain: an evolutionary chimaera

(2013) Maria Antonietta Tosches et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Involvement of the Globus Pallidus in Behavioral Goal Determination and Action Specification

(2013) N. Arimura et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Defense-Like Behaviors Evoked by Pharmacological Disinhibition of the Superior Colliculus in the Primate

(2013) J. T. DesJardin et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Evolution of phototransduction, vertebrate photoreceptors and retina

(2013) Trevor D. Lamb   PROGRESS IN RETINAL AND EYE RESEARCH

Where's the action? The pragmatic turn in cognitive science

(2013) Andreas K. Engel et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

A developmental ontology for the mammalian brain based on the prosomeric model

(2013) Luis Puelles et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Spontaneous network formation among cooperative RNA replicators

(2012) Nilesh Vaidya et al.   NATURE

From chemotaxis to the cognitive map: The function of olfaction

(2012) L. F. Jacobs   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular analysis of the amphioxus frontal eye unravels the evolutionary origin of the retina and pigment cells of the vertebrate eye

(2012) P. Vopalensky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of centralized nervous systems: Two schools of evolutionary thought

(2012) R. G. Northcutt   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A functional architecture of the human brain: emerging insights from the science of emotion

(2012) Kristen A. Lindquist et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The earliest known stem-tetrapod from the Lower Devonian of China

(2012) Jing Lu et al.   Nature Communications

Segregated Anatomical Input to Sub-Regions of the Rodent Superior Colliculus Associated with Approach and Defense

(2012) Eliane Comoli et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: amphioxus

(2011) S. Bertrand et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Different Representations of Potential and Selected Motor Plans by Distinct Parietal Areas

(2011) H. Cui et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Neural Correlates of Biased Competition in Premotor Cortex

(2011) A. Pastor-Bernier et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

On the road to invariant object recognition: How cortical area V2 transforms absolute to relative disparity during 3D vision

(2011) Stephen Grossberg et al.   NEURAL NETWORKS

Choosing Goals, Not Rules: Deciding among Rule-Based Action Plans

(2011) Christian Klaes et al.   NEURON

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Attention, Intention, and Priority in the Parietal Lobe

(2010) James W. Bisley et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Neural Mechanisms for Interacting with a World Full of Action Choices

(2010) Paul Cisek et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Basal ganglia contributions to motor control: a vigorous tutor

(2010) Robert S Turner et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Autocatalytic Sets and the Origin of Life

(2010) Wim Hordijk et al.   Entropy

Environmental context explains Lévy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators

(2010) Nicolas E. Humphries et al.   NATURE

The Roles of Dopamine and Related Compounds in Reward-Seeking Behavior Across Animal Phyla

(2010) Andrew B. Barron et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

A Novel Neural Substrate for the Transformation of Olfactory Inputs into Motor Output

(2010) Dominique Derjean et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A neural model of how the brain computes heading from optic flow in realistic scenes

(2009) N. Andrew Browning et al.   COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Selective projection patterns from subtypes of retinal ganglion cells to tectum and pretectum: Distribution and relation to behavior

(2009) Marcus Robert Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Context-Specific Grasp Movement Representation in the Macaque Anterior Intraparietal Area

(2009) M. A. Baumann et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Is That within Reach? fMRI Reveals That the Human Superior Parieto-Occipital Cortex Encodes Objects Reachable by the Hand

(2009) J. P. Gallivan et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Intention, Action Planning, and Decision Making in Parietal-Frontal Circuits

(2009) Richard A. Andersen et al.   NEURON

Cerebellum-Like Structures and Their Implications for Cerebellar Function

(2008) Curtis C. Bell et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic value systems in conditioning and outcome-specific revaluation

(2008) Mark R. Dranias et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

View-invariant object category learning, recognition, and search: How spatial and object attention are coordinated using surface-based attentional shrouds

(2008) Arash Fazl et al.   COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Hungry for life: How the arcuate nucleus and neuropeptide Y may play a critical role in mediating the benefits of calorie restriction

(2008) Robin K. Minor et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

(2008) Nicholas H. Putnam et al.   NATURE

Game theory and neural basis of social decision making

(2008) Daeyeol Lee   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The neural systems that mediate human perceptual decision making

(2008) Hauke R. Heekeren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

A framework for studying the neurobiology of value-based decision making

(2008) Antonio Rangel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Basic features of the ancestral chordate brain: A protochordate perspective

(2007) Thurston C. Lacalli   BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN