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Cognitive achievements with a miniature brain: The lesson of jumping spiders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2007

Emmanuel Gilissen
Emmanuel Gilissen
Affiliation:
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of African Zoology, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium Université Libre de Bruxelles, Laboratory of Histology and Neuropathology, 1070 Brussels, Belgium. [email protected]
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Abstract

The observation that an animal's behavior is largely unaltered even after profound modifications of sizeable brain portions, suggests a large flexibility in the relationships between species-specific brain structures and species-specific behavior. In this perspective, a fascinating example is given by the comparison of jumping spiders and felids, where similar predatory behaviors are achieved with totally different brain substrates.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 94 - 95
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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