The neuroecology of the water-to-land transition and the evolution of the vertebrate brain

Reconsidering the evidence for learning in single cells

(2021) Samuel J Gershman et al.   eLife

Evolution of forelimb musculoskeletal function across the fish-to-tetrapod transition

(2021) J. L. Molnar et al.   Science Advances

Intersection of motor volumes predicts the outcome of ambush predation of larval zebrafish

(2021) Kiran Bhattacharyya et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The feeding system of Tiktaalik roseae: an intermediate between suction feeding and biting

(2021) Justin B. Lemberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From Cell Types to an Integrated Understanding of Brain Evolution: The Case of the Cerebral Cortex

(2021) Maria Antonietta Tosches   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

The tectum/superior colliculus as the vertebrate solution for spatial sensory integration and action

(2021) Tadashi Isa et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Geometry of abstract learned knowledge in the hippocampus

(2021) Edward H. Nieh et al.   NATURE

Formalizing planning and information search in naturalistic decision-making

(2021) L. T. Hunt et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Does leaving water make fish smarter? Terrestrial exposure and exercise improve spatial learning in an amphibious fish

(2021) Giulia S. Rossi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Versatile Wayfinder: Prefrontal Contributions to Spatial Navigation

(2021) Eva Zita Patai et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Genome-enabled discovery of evolutionary divergence in brains and behavior

(2021) Chinar Patil et al.   Scientific Reports

The Predictive Brain Must Have a Limitation in Short-Term Memory Capacity

(2021) Sabrina Trapp et al.   CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

A multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex

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The mouse cortico–basal ganglia–thalamic network

(2021) Nicholas N. Foster et al.   NATURE

Surprising simplicities and syntheses in limbless self-propulsion in sand

(2020) Henry C. Astley et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Hippocampal Cognitive Map: One Space or Many?

(2020) Hugo J. Spiers   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Evaluating the neurophysiological evidence for predictive processing as a model of perception

(2020) Kevin S. Walsh et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Spatial planning with long visual range benefits escape from visual predators in complex naturalistic environments

(2020) Ugurcan Mugan et al.   Nature Communications

Walking with Salamanders: From Molecules to Biorobotics

(2020) Dimitri Ryczko et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

A Systematic Framework for Olfactory Bulb Signal Transformations

(2020) Thomas A. Cleland et al.   Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Actor-critic reinforcement learning in the songbird

(2020) Ruidong Chen et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Mastering Atari, Go, chess and shogi by planning with a learned model

(2020) Julian Schrittwieser et al.   NATURE

Functional adaptive landscapes predict terrestrial capacity at the origin of limbs

(2020) Blake V. Dickson et al.   NATURE

Inverse resource allocation between vision and olfaction across the genus Drosophila

(2019) Ian W. Keesey et al.   Nature Communications

Orbitofrontal Circuits Control Multiple Reinforcement-Learning Processes

(2019) Stephanie M. Groman et al.   NEURON

Primate mosaic brain evolution reflects selection on sensory and cognitive specialization

(2019) Alex R. DeCasien et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Early tetrapods had an eye on the land

(2019) Nadia B. Fröbisch et al.   NATURE

Morphology of the earliest reconstructable tetrapod Parmastega aelidae

(2019) Pavel A. Beznosov et al.   NATURE

Computational Neuroethology: A Call to Action

(2019) Sandeep Robert Datta et al.   NEURON

Power, competition, and the nature of history

(2019) Geerat J. Vermeij   PALEOBIOLOGY

Developmental duration as an organizer of the evolving mammalian brain: scaling, adaptations, and exceptions

(2019) Barbara L. Finlay et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Large animal models of stroke and traumatic brain injury as translational tools

(2018) Annabel Jain Sorby-Adams et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Mammalian brain development and our grandmothering life history

(2018) Kristen Hawkes et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Comparative social grooming networks in captive chimpanzees and bonobos

(2018) Michelle A. Rodrigues et al.   PRIMATES

How cognitive and reactive fear circuits optimize escape decisions in humans

(2018) Song Qi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Frontal Cortex and the Hierarchical Control of Behavior

(2018) David Badre et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Equal fitness paradigm explained by a trade-off between generation time and energy production rate

(2018) James H. Brown et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The Combinatorial Creature: Cortical Phenotypes within and across Lifetimes

(2018) Leah A. Krubitzer et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Are we of two minds?

(2018) Nathaniel D. Daw   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

A time-stamp mechanism may provide temporal information necessary for egocentric to allocentric spatial transformations

(2018) Avner Wallach et al.   eLife

Locomotion, Energetics, Performance, and Behavior: A Mammalian Perspective on Lizards, and Vice Versa

(2017) Theodore Garland et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The role of the hippocampus in navigation is memory

(2017) Howard Eichenbaum   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Partially Mixed Selectivity in Human Posterior Parietal Association Cortex

(2017) Carey Y. Zhang et al.   NEURON

On the Integration of Space, Time, and Memory

(2017) Howard Eichenbaum   NEURON

Coevolution of cultural intelligence, extended life history, sociality, and brain size in primates

(2017) Sally E. Street et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Massive increase in visual range preceded the origin of terrestrial vertebrates

(2017) Malcolm A. MacIver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Concerted and mosaic evolution of functional modules in songbird brains

(2017) Jordan M. Moore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Holding visual attention for 400millionyears: A model of tectum and torus longitudinalis in teleost fishes

(2017) David P.M. Northmore   VISION RESEARCH

Temperature manipulation of neuronal dynamics in a forebrain motor control nucleus

(2017) Matías A. Goldin et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Navigating Monogamy: Nonapeptide Sensitivity in a Memory Neural Circuit May Shape Social Behavior and Mating Decisions

(2017) Alexander G. Ophir   Frontiers in Neuroscience

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

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

Primate brain size is predicted by diet but not sociality

(2017) Alex R. DeCasien et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Development of body, head and brain features in the Australian fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata; Marsupialia: Dasyuridae); A postnatal model of forebrain formation

(2017) Rodrigo Suárez et al.   PLoS One

Does retinal configuration make the head and eyes of foveate birds move?

(2017) Bret A. Moore et al.   Scientific Reports

A phenology of the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals

(2016) Barry G. Lovegrove   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A comparative approach to cerebellar function: insights from electrosensory systems

(2016) Richard Warren et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search

(2016) David Silver et al.   NATURE

Motor Planning, Not Execution, Separates Motor Memories

(2016) Hannah R. Sheahan et al.   NEURON

Neural Circuits Underlying Visually Evoked Escapes in Larval Zebrafish

(2016) Timothy W. Dunn et al.   NEURON

Eye movements in the wild: Oculomotor control, gaze behavior & frames of reference

(2016) Otto Lappi   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Ultra-Rapid Vision in Birds

(2016) Jannika E. Boström et al.   PLoS One

Adaptive integration of habits into depth-limited planning defines a habitual-goal–directed spectrum

(2016) Mehdi Keramati et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tail use improves performance on soft substrates in models of early vertebrate land locomotors

(2016) B. McInroe et al.   SCIENCE

Gait disorders in adults and the elderly

(2016) Walter Pirker et al.   WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT

The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language

(2015) Morten H. Christiansen et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Mammalian Brains Are Made of These: A Dataset of the Numbers and Densities of Neuronal and Nonneuronal Cells in the Brain of Glires, Primates, Scandentia, Eulipotyphlans, Afrotherians and Artiodactyls, and Their Relationship with Body Mass

(2015) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

From sauropsids to mammals and back: New approaches to comparative cortical development

(2015) Juan F. Montiel et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Visual phototransduction components in cephalopod chromatophores suggest dermal photoreception

(2015) A. C. N. Kingston et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Eye-independent, light-activated chromatophore expansion (LACE) and expression of phototransduction genes in the skin of Octopus bimaculoides

(2015) M. D. Ramirez et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Developmental mechanisms channeling cortical evolution

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

The unsteady eye: an information-processing stage, not a bug

(2015) Michele Rucci et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Effect of temperature and glia in brain size enlargement and origin of allometric body-brain size scaling in vertebrates

(2014) Yuguo Yu et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Not all sharks are “swimming noses”: variation in olfactory bulb size in cartilaginous fishes

(2014) Kara E. Yopak et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Evolutionarily conserved organization of the dopaminergic system in lamprey: SNc/VTA afferent and efferent connectivity and D2 receptor expression

(2014) Juan Pérez-Fernández et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Eye movements of vertebrates and their relation to eye form and function

(2014) Michael F. Land   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Computational visual ecology in the pelagic realm

(2014) D.-E. Nilsson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of self-control

(2014) E. L. MacLean et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary pressures on primate intertemporal choice

(2014) J. R. Stevens   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How (and why) the visual control of action differs from visual perception

(2014) M. A. Goodale   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An evolutionary framework for studying mechanisms of social behavior

(2014) Hans A. Hofmann et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Spiracular air breathing in polypterid fishes and its implications for aerial respiration in stem tetrapods

(2014) Jeffrey B. Graham et al.   Nature Communications

Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science

(2013)   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Flipper-driven terrestrial locomotion of a sea turtle-inspired robot

(2013) Nicole Mazouchova et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Variation in Reptilian Brains and Cognition

(2013) R. Glenn Northcutt   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Innovating Innovation Rate and Its Relationship with Brains, Ecology and General Intelligence

(2013) Louis Lefebvre et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Variation in Human Brains May Facilitate Evolutionary Change toward a Limited Range of Phenotypes

(2013) Christine J. Charvet et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Bridging “Romer’s Gap”: Limb Mechanics of an Extant Belly-Dragging Lizard Inform Debate on Tetrapod Locomotion During the Early Carboniferous

(2013) John A. Nyakatura et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Brains, innovations, tools and cultural transmission in birds, non-human primates, and fossil hominins

(2013) Louis Lefebvre   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Propulsive Forces of Mudskipper Fins and Salamander Limbs during Terrestrial Locomotion: Implications for the Invasion of Land

(2013) S. M. Kawano et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The role of long-range connections on the specificity of the macaque interareal cortical network

(2013) N. T. Markov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Brain reorganization, not relative brain size, primarily characterizes anthropoid brain evolution

(2013) J. B. Smaers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Terradynamics of Legged Locomotion on Granular Media

(2013) C. Li et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2013) Luis Puelles et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Brain Systems for Probabilistic and Dynamic Prediction: Computational Specificity and Integration

(2013) Jill X. O'Reilly et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Social Control of the Brain

(2012) Russell D. Fernald   Annual Review of Neuroscience

It pays to cheat: tactical deception in a cephalopod social signalling system

(2012) C. Brown et al.   Biology Letters

Forebrain Organization in Elasmobranchs

(2012) Michael H. Hofmann et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Motor control is decision-making

(2012) Daniel M Wolpert et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Development and evolution of cerebellar neural circuits

(2012) Mitsuhiro Hashimoto et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

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

Comparative analyses of evolutionary rates reveal different pathways to encephalization in bats, carnivorans, and primates

(2012) J. B. Smaers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cortical evolution in mammals: The bane and beauty of phenotypic variability

(2012) L. A. Krubitzer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolution of lateralized foot use in parrots: a phylogenetic approach

(2011) Culum Brown et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Do Teleost Fishes Possess a Homolog of Mammalian Isocortex?

(2011) R. Glenn Northcutt   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

The dorsal pallium in zebrafish, Danio rerio (Cyprinidae, Teleostei)

(2011) Thomas Mueller et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Repeated colonization and hybridization in Lake Malawi cichlids

(2011) Domino A. Joyce et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Multiple representations and algorithms for reinforcement learning in the cortico-basal ganglia circuit

(2011) Makoto Ito et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Sensory maps in the olfactory cortex defined by long-range viral tracing of single neurons

(2011) Sulagna Ghosh et al.   NATURE

Mapping behavioural evolution onto brain evolution: the strategic roles of conserved organization in individuals and species

(2011) B. L. Finlay et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What can mice tell us about how vision works?

(2011) Andrew D. Huberman et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Development of human visual function

(2011) Oliver Braddick et al.   VISION RESEARCH

Large-brained mammals live longer

(2010) C. GONZÁLEZ-LAGOS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Tetrapod trackways from the early Middle Devonian period of Poland

(2010) Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki et al.   NATURE

Natural selection and the genetics of adaptation in threespine stickleback

(2010) D. Schluter et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A conserved pattern of brain scaling from sharks to primates

(2010) K. E. Yopak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Motion perception and visual signal design in Anolis lizards

(2010) L. J. Fleishman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Energy-Information Trade-Offs between Movement and Sensing

(2010) Malcolm A. MacIver et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Brain Size and Brain Organization of the Whale Shark, Rhincodon typus, Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

(2009) Kara E. Yopak et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

The evolution of eyes and visually guided behaviour

(2009) D.-E. Nilsson   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Habits, Rituals, and the Evaluative Brain

(2008) Ann M. Graybiel   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Habitat Complexity, Brain, and Behavior

(2008) Caroly A. Shumway   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Predicting light penetration into river waters

(2008) Robert J. Davies-Colley et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Beamwidth control and angular target detection in an echolocating bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

(2008) Patrick W. Moore et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

The cranial endoskeleton of Tiktaalik roseae

(2008) Jason P. Downs et al.   NATURE

Control of mental activities by internal models in the cerebellum

(2008) Masao Ito   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Proliferation, neurogenesis and regeneration in the non-mammalian vertebrate brain

(2007) J. Kaslin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES