The vertical lobe of cephalopods: an attractive brain structure for understanding the evolution of advanced learning and memory systems

The gyri of the octopus vertical lobe have distinct neurochemical identities

(2015) Shuichi Shigeno et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

The contribution of molecular data to our understanding of cephalopod evolution and systematics: a review

(2014) A. Louise Allcock et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Nitric oxide is necessary for long-term facilitation of synaptic responses and for development of context memory in terrestrial snails

(2014) T.A. Korshunova et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Evolution of Complex Higher Brain Centers and Behaviors: Behavioral Correlates of Mushroom Body Elaboration in Insects

(2013) Sarah M. Farris   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Reinforcement signalling in Drosophila; dopamine does it all after all

(2013) Scott Waddell   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Synaptic plasticity in cephalopods; more than just learning and memory?

(2013) Euan R. Brown et al.   INVERTEBRATE NEUROSCIENCE

Two sides to long-term potentiation: a view towards reconciliation

(2013) Z. Padamsey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Continuing Debate on Deep Molluscan Phylogeny: Evidence for Serialia (Mollusca, Monoplacophora + Polyplacophora)

(2013) I. Stöger et al.   Biomed Research International

Neural Mechanisms of Reward in Insects

(2012) Clint J. Perry et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

An Embodied View of Octopus Neurobiology

(2012) Binyamin Hochner   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Molluscs

(2012) Gerhard Haszprunar et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Flexible Spatial Orientation and Navigational Strategies in Chambered Nautilus

(2012) Robyn J. Crook et al.   ETHOLOGY

Layered reward signalling through octopamine and dopamine in Drosophila

(2012) Christopher J. Burke et al.   NATURE

Nitric oxide as a regulator of behavior: New ideas from Aplysia feeding

(2012) Abraham J. Susswein et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Cephalopod origin and evolution: A congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules

(2011) Björn Kröger et al.   BIOESSAYS

Alternative Sites of Synaptic Plasticity in Two Homologous “Fan-out Fan-in” Learning and Memory Networks

(2011) Tal Shomrat et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Parallel evolution of Nitric Oxide signaling: Diversity of synthesis and memory pathways

(2011) Leonid et al.   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools

(2011) Stephen A. Smith et al.   NATURE

Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships

(2011) Kevin M. Kocot et al.   NATURE

Dopamine signals for reward value and risk: basic and recent data

(2010) Wolfram Schultz   Behavioral and Brain Functions

Common Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity in Vertebrates and Invertebrates

(2010) David L. Glanzman   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity and Metaplasticity during Intermediate-Term Memory Formation in Aplysia

(2010) I. Antonov et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Long-term depression in the CNS

(2010) Graham L. Collingridge et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Serotonin is a facilitatory neuromodulator of synaptic transmission and “reinforces” long-term potentiation induction in the vertical lobe of Octopus vulgaris

(2010) T. Shomrat et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Comparative Neurobiology of Feeding in the Opisthobranch Sea Slug, Aplysia, and the Pulmonate Snail, Helisoma: Evolutionary Considerations

(2009) Margaret M. Wentzell et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

The Evolution of Flexible Behavioral Repertoires in Cephalopod Molluscs

(2009) Frank W. Grasso et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Memory of visual and topographical features suggests spatial learning in nautilus (Nautilus pompilius L.).

(2009) Robyn J. Crook et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The Octopus Vertical Lobe Modulates Short-Term Learning Rate and Uses LTP to Acquire Long-Term Memory

(2008) Tal Shomrat et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Concepts of neural nitric oxide-mediated transmission

(2008) John Garthwaite   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A biphasic memory curve in the chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius L. (Cephalopoda: Nautiloidea)

(2008) R. Crook et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY