Abstract
Invertebrate behavior—actions or responses?
Highlights
The apparent relative simplicity started to disappear, once scientists began to either omit parameters from the traditional experiments, add additional ones, or look more closely
This research topic highlights a selection of experiments which serve to demonstrate the kind of decision-making that is taking place even in invertebrates as soon as the experiment allows for sufficient degrees of freedom
Starting from the well-known giant fiber escape circuits in crustaceans, mollusks and insects, they show that today the role of these giant fiber systems is either questionable or only a small part of a range of different escape maneuvers with a large variety of different neural systems subserving them
Summary
The apparent relative (to vertebrates) simplicity started to disappear, once scientists began to either omit parameters from the traditional experiments, add additional ones, or look more closely. Experiments in which parameters have been added to the traditional stimulus and its response can be grouped into two classes, those in which the internal state of the animal is taken into account and those in which stimuli are provided such as to establish a choice situation.
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