Abstract
Watching a paradigm shift in neuroscience
Highlights
It was discovered that the likely ancestral state of behavioral organization is one of probing the environment with ongoing, variable actions first and evaluating sensory feedback later
Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies over the last decade and a half revealed that the human brain is far from passively waiting for stimuli, but rather constantly produces ongoing, variable activity, and just shifts this activity over to other networks when we move from rest to task or switch between tasks
The most recent publication is from an animal where the connectome is so dominated by feed-forward connections from sensory to motor neurons, that even today it would be difficult to imagine how the neurobiology underlying behavioral variability could be studied in such an animal, the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans: Feedback from Network States Generates Variability in a Probabilistic Olfactory Circui\nt
Summary
It was discovered that the likely ancestral state of behavioral organization is one of probing the environment with ongoing, variable actions first and evaluating sensory feedback later (i.e., the inverse of stimulus response).
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