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Do Insects Have Emotions? Some Insights from Bumble Bees David Baracchi, Mathieu Lihoreau, Martin Giurfa
Do Insects Have Emotions? Some Insights from Bumble Bees David Baracchi, Mathieu Lihoreau, Martin Giurfa To cite this version: David Baracchi, Mathieu Lihoreau, Martin Giurfa. Do Insects Have Emotions? Some Insights from Bumble Bees. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Frontiers, 2017, 11, 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00157. hal-02105101 HAL Id: hal-02105101 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02105101 Submitted on 20 Apr 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. PERSPECTIVE published: xx August 2017 doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00157 Do Insects Have Emotions? Some Insights from Bumble Bees David Baracchi 1, 2*, Mathieu Lihoreau 1 and Martin Giurfa 1 1 Research Center on Animal Cognition, Center for Integrative Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, 2 Laboratoire d’Ethologie Expérimentale et Comparée, Université Paris 13, Paris, France While our conceptual understanding of emotions is largely based on human subjective experiences, research in comparative cognition has shown growing interest in the existence and identification of “emotion-like” states in non-human animals. There is still ongoing debate about the nature of emotions in animals (especially invertebrates), and certainly their existence and the existence of certain expressive behaviors displaying internal emotional states raise a number of exciting and challenging questions. -
CURRICULUM VITAE Joseph S. Takahashi Howard Hughes Medical
CURRICULUM VITAE Joseph S. Takahashi Howard Hughes Medical Institute Department of Neuroscience University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., NA4.118 Dallas, Texas 75390-9111 (214) 648-1876, FAX (214) 648-1801 Email: [email protected] DATE OF BIRTH: December 16, 1951 NATIONALITY: U.S. Citizen by birth EDUCATION: 1981-1983 Pharmacology Research Associate Training Program, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Laboratory of Clinical Sciences and Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 1979-1981 Ph.D., Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, Dr. Michael Menaker, Advisor. Summer 1977 Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California 1975-1979 Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 1970-1974 B.A. in Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 2013-present Principal Investigator, Satellite, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, World Premier International Research Center Initiative, University of Tsukuba, Japan 2009-present Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center 2009-present Loyd B. Sands Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience, UT Southwestern 2009-present Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UT Southwestern 2009-present Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology and Physiology, and Walter and Mary Elizabeth Glass Professor Emeritus in the Life Sciences, Northwestern University -
Neurobiology, Endocrinology and Behavior E
Neurobiology, Endocrinology and Behavior E. Adkins-Regan, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA C. S. Carter, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA ã 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Introduction In subsequent centuries, many scientists examined and described the structure of the brain and nervous system Two types of mechanisms, neural and hormonal, have in an array of animal species. A common theme was to note been prominent in the history of research directed at what seemed to be marked differences in the organization uncovering the proximate physiological causes of animal of the brain, especially the forebrain, and in the relative behavior. During the first part of this history, the nervous sizes of structures and brain divisions, and to speculate and endocrine systems were envisioned as separate sys- about their relationship to behavior and intelligence. tems and were studied by somewhat different research With the publication of Charles Darwin’s theory of communities. As a result, research on physiological evolution by natural selection, these species differences mechanisms of animal behavior has tended to develop in brain structure and size began to be interpreted in an along two somewhat separate and parallel tracks. These evolutionary framework. Until the middle of the 1900s, dual origins are reflected in the organization of this sur- the dominant view had been that the brains (especially vey. Beginning in the twentieth century, several discov- forebrains) of different vertebrate classes (as represented eries led to the realization that the nervous and endocrine by a small number of species from each of the largest systems are physiologically integrated to a highly signifi- classes) were fundamentally different in organization, cant extent, which is of great importance for animal that they formed an evolutionary series progressing behavior. -
Research Center on Animal Cognition CRCA
Research units HCERES report on research unit: Research Center on Animal Cognition CRCA Under the supervision of the following institutions and research bodies: Université Toulouse 3 - Paul Sabatier - UPS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS Evaluation Campaign 2014-2015 (Group A) Research units In the name of HCERES,1 In the name of the experts committee,2 Didier HOUSSIN, president Martine HAUSBERGER, chairwoman of the committee Under the decree No.2014-1365 dated 14 november 2014, 1 The president of HCERES "countersigns the evaluation reports set up by the experts committees and signed by their chairman." (Article 8, paragraph 5) 2 The evaluation reports "are signed by the chairman of the expert committee". (Article 11, paragraph 2) Research Center on Animal Cognition, CRCA, U Toulouse 3, CNRS, Mr Martin GIURFA Evaluation report This report is the result of the evaluation by the experts committee, the composition of which is specified below. The assessments contained herein are the expression of an independent and collegial deliberation of the committee. Unit name: Research Center on Animal Cognition Unit acronym: CRCA Label requested: UMR Present no.: 5169 Name of Director Mr Martin GIURFA (2014-2015): Name of Project Leader (2016-2020): Mr Martin GIURFA Expert committee members Chair: Ms Martine HAUSBERGER, Université de Rennes 1 Experts: Ms Fabienne AUJARD, CNRS, Brunoy (CoNRS representative) Mr Jérôme ESTAQUIER, Université de Laval, Québec, Canada Ms Heike FELDHAAR, Bayreuth University, Germany Ms Sylvie GRANON, Centre -
Curriculum Vitae Fabienne Dupuy
Curriculum Vitae Fabienne Dupuy Date of birth: January18th, 1980 Place of birth: Saint-Gaudens (31) France Professional address : University of Cambridge Department of zoology Downing Street Cambridge CB2 3EJ United Kingdom Tel : +44 (0)1223 336622 E-Mail : [email protected] Web page: http://casas-lab.irbi.univ-tours.fr/dupuy.html Research Interests Neurobiology, Neuroethology, Sensory system Expertise Behavioural Techniques (conditioning procedures) Optophysiological measurements of neuronal activity (calcium imaging recording in the insect nervous system) Intra-cellular and extra-cellular electrophysiology Computing programmation in Matlab software Informatic tools (R, Statistica, Linux) Current position Since 2009 Postdoctoral fellowship : neural basis of the steering behaviour in Gryllus bimaculatus. Department of zoology, University of Cambridge, UK. Funded by the BBRSC. Advisor : Dr. Berthold Hedwig University education 2005 - 2009 PhD thesis (PhD course Santé sciences technologies) : Coding of mechanosensory information in the sensorial system of the cricket Nemobius sylvestris. I.R.B.I. CNRS/Univ. Faculté des Sciences et Techinques, Tours, France. Supported by CILIA European project. Advisor: Prof Dr. Claudio Lazzari. 2004 - 2005 First year of PhD (PhD course CLESCO): Behavioural and neurobiological basis of the olfactive learning in the ant Camponotus spp. C.R.C.A CNRS/Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. Advisor: Prof Dr. Martin Giurfa. 2003 - 2004 MSc degree: Neurosciences (speciality: Neurosciences , Behavior and Cognition) obtained with honours: Olfactory learning and coding in the ants Camponotus spp. C.R.C.A CNRS-Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France and University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Advisors: Prof. Dr. Martin Giurfa and Dr. Roxana Josens. 1999 - 2003 BSc degree: Biological Sciences, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. -
Neuromechanics of Coordination During Swallowing in Aplysia Californica
1470 • The Journal of Neuroscience, February 1, 2006 • 26(5):1470–1485 Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive Neuromechanics of Coordination during Swallowing in Aplysia californica Hui Ye,1 Douglas W. Morton,2 and Hillel J. Chiel1,2,3 Departments of 1Biomedical Engineering, 2Neuroscience, and 3Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7080 Bernstein (1967) hypothesized that preparation of the periphery was crucial for correct responses to motor output. To test this hypothesis in a behaving animal, we examined the roles of two identified motor neurons, B7 and B8, which contribute to feeding behavior in the marine mollusk Aplysia californica. Neuron B7 innervates a hinge muscle and has no overt behavioral effect during smaller-amplitude (type A) swallows, because the hinge muscle is too short to exert force. Neuron B8 activates a muscle (I4) that acts solely to grasp material during type A swallows. During larger-amplitude (type B) swallows, the behavioral actions of both motor neurons change, because the larger-amplitude anterior movement of the grasper sets up the periphery to respond differently to motor outputs. The larger anterior movement stretches the hinge muscle, so that activating neuron B7 mediates the initial retraction phase of swallowing. The changed position of the I4 muscle allows neuron B8 not only to induce grasping but also to pull material into the buccal cavity, contributing to retraction. Thus, larger-amplitude swallows are associated with the expression of two new degrees of freedom (use of the hinge to retract and use of the grasper to retract) that are essential for mediating type B swallows. These results provide a direct demonstration of Bernstein’s hypothesis that properly positioning the periphery can be crucial for its ability to correctly respond to motor output and also demonstrate that biomechanical context can alter the functions of identified motor neurons. -
The Scope of Neuroethology
THE BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES (1984) 7, 367-412 Printed in the United States of America The scope of neuroethology Graham Hoyle Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oreg. 97403 Abstract: Neuroethology, an interdisciplinary subdivision of neuroscience, has emerged in recent years. Since 1976 there has been a regular session under this heading at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. In 1980 two introductory texts in English were published on the subject (Ewert 1980; Guthrie 1980), and a third (Camhi 1984) was published recently. There is widespread interest in neural mechanisms underlying behavior, but they encompass such a vast array of often unrelated topics that proponents do not share common goals. This article describes the emergence of ethology as a discipline, pointing out that its practitioners were successful because they confined their research to stereotyped, complex, nonlearned, innate behavioral acts. A limited number of profoundly significant principles emerged. Each of these is redefined. The major concepts of earlier ethology were embodied in a simple hydraulic model used by Konrad Lorenz in 1949 (Lorenz 1950). It is pointed out that this model implies the existence of common neurophysiological mechanisms and neuronal circuitry. This model has now been made obsolete by neurophysiological progress, but with appropriate ~nodificationsan updated version may still be useful in focusing attention on possible principles. The initial aim of neuroethology should be to examine the neurophysiological events in a variety of behaviors, exhibited by diverse animals from different phyla, which meet the criteria of innate behavioral acts. The behaviors should be sufficiently complex to interest ethologists, yet they should be addressable with neurophysiological methods down to the cellular level. -
Neuroethology in Neuroscience Why Study an Exotic Animal
Neuroethology in Neuroscience or Why study an exotic animal Nobel prize in Physiology and Medicine 1973 Karl von Frisch Konrad Lorenz Nikolaas Tinbergen for their discoveries concerning "organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns". Behaviour patterns become explicable when interpreted as the result of natural selection, analogous with anatomical and physiological characteristics. This year's prize winners hold a unique position in this field. They are the most eminent founders of a new science, called "the comparative study of behaviour" or "ethology" (from ethos = habit, manner). Their first discoveries were made on insects, fishes and birds, but the basal principles have proved to be applicable also on mammals, including man. Nobel prize in Physiology and Medicine 1973 Karl von Frisch Konrad Lorenz Nikolaas Tinbergen Ammophila the sand wasp Black headed gull Niko Tinbergen’s four questions? 1. How the behavior of the animal affects its survival and reproduction (function)? 2. By how the behavior is similar or different from behaviors in other species (phylogeny)? 3. How the behavior is shaped by the animal’s own experiences (ontogeny)? 4. How the behavior is manifested at the physiological level (mechanism)? Neuroethology as a sub-field in brain research • A large variety of research models and a tendency to focus on esoteric animals and systems (specialized behaviors). • Studying animals while ignoring the relevancy to humans. • Studying the brain in the context of the animal’s natural behavior. • Top-down approach. Archer fish Prof. Ronen Segev Ben-Gurion University Neuroethology as a sub-field in brain research • A large variety of research models and a tendency to focus on esoteric animals and systems (specialized behaviors). -
On Neuromechanical Approaches for the Study of Biological and Robotic Grasp and Manipulation Francisco J
Valero-Cuevas and Santello Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (2017) 14:101 DOI 10.1186/s12984-017-0305-3 REVIEW Open Access On neuromechanical approaches for the study of biological and robotic grasp and manipulation Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas1,2* and Marco Santello3 Abstract Biological and robotic grasp and manipulation are undeniably similar at the level of mechanical task performance. However, their underlying fundamental biological vs. engineering mechanisms are, by definition, dramatically different and can even be antithetical. Even our approach to each is diametrically opposite: inductive science for the study of biological systems vs. engineering synthesis for the design and construction of robotic systems. The past 20 years have seen several conceptual advances in both fields and the quest to unify them. Chief among them is the reluctant recognition that their underlying fundamental mechanisms may actually share limited common ground, while exhibiting many fundamental differences. This recognition is particularly liberating because it allows us to resolve and move beyond multiple paradoxes and contradictions that arose from the initial reasonable assumption of a large common ground. Here, we begin by introducing the perspective of neuromechanics, which emphasizes that real-world behavior emerges from the intimate interactions among the physical structure of the system, the mechanical requirements of a task, the feasible neural control actions to produce it, and the ability of the neuromuscular system to adapt through interactions with the environment. This allows us to articulate a succinct overview of a few salient conceptual paradoxes and contradictions regarding under-determined vs. over-determined mechanics, under- vs. over-actuated control, prescribed vs. -
November 2019 March 2011
International Society for Neuroethology Newsletter/November 2019 March 2011 International Society for Neuroethology PHONE: +1-785-843-1235 P.O. Box 1897 (or 1-800-627-0629 Ext. 233) Lawrence, KS 66044, USA FAX: +1-785-843-1274 Website: http://neuroethology.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/neuroethology/ E-mail: [email protected] ISN Officers THIS ISSUE FEATURES President: Eric Warrant, Department of Biology, Lund • President’s Column by Eric Warrant University, Biology Building, Sölvegatan 35 • Heiligenberg Travel Award Winners 223 62 Lund, Sweden • Physics and Biology by Ana Amador and Gabriel PHONE: +46 46 222 93 41 Mindlin E-mail: [email protected] • Invited Symposia for the 2020 ICN by Uwe Homberg and Cindy Moss Rui Oliveira Treasurer: Mark Bee, Department of Ecology, • Looking Ahead to Lisbon by Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 140 Gortner Laboratory, 1479 Gortner Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108 USA The Prez Says PHONE: +1-612-624-6749 Eric Warrant E-mail: [email protected] President of the ISN Secretary: Gabriella Wolff, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, WA 98195-1800 USA E-mail: [email protected] Past-President: Catharine Rankin, Department of Psychology, Kenny Room 3525 – 2136 West Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4 PHONE: +1-604-822-5449 FAX: +1-604-822-7299 E-mail: [email protected] Hello everyone, and greetings from Australia! President-Elect: Karen Mesce, Department of Just now I am nearing the end of a three-week field Entomology and Graduate Program in Neuroscience, trip studying the remarkable migratory abilities of a University of Minnesota, 219 Hodson Hall, 1980 Folwell small and apparently unremarkable brown moth – Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108 USA the nocturnal Bogong moth Agrotis infusa. -
Invertebrate Learning and Memory
CHAPTER 3 Cognitive Components of Insect Behavior Martin Giurfa*,† and Randolf Menzel‡ *Universite´ de Toulouse, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Toulouse, France †Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Toulouse, France ‡Freie Universita¨t Berlin, Berlin, Germany INTRODUCTION foraging,6,7 and they learn the spatial relations of envi- À ronmental objects during these exploratory flights.8 10 Cognition is the integrating process that utilizes Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) also respond to their many different forms of memory (innate and acquired), placement within a novel open-field arena with a high À creates internal representations of the experienced level of initial activity,11 13 followed by a reduced world, and provides a reference for expecting the future stable level of spontaneous activity. This initial elevated of the animal’s own actions.1,2 It thus allows the animal component corresponds to an active exploration because to decide between different options in reference to the it is independent of handling prior to placement within expected outcome of its potential actions. All these pro- the arena, and it is proportional to the size of the arena.14 cesses occur as intrinsic operations of the nervous sys- Furthermore, visually impaired flies are significantly tem, and they provide an implicit form of knowledge impaired in the attenuation of initial activity, thus for controlling behavior. None of these processes need suggesting that visual information is required for the to—and certainly will not—become explicit within the rapid decay from elevated initial activity to spontaneous nervous systems of many animal species (particularly activity within the novel open-field arena.14 invertebrates and lower vertebrates), but their existence Exploratory behavior facilitates learning by associat- must be assumed given the animal’s specific behavioral ing the animal’s action to the resulting outcome. -
Tony J. Prescott Ehud Ahissar Eugene Izhikevich Editors Scholarpedia of Touch Scholarpedia
Scholarpedia Series Editor: Eugene Izhikevich Tony J. Prescott Ehud Ahissar Eugene Izhikevich Editors Scholarpedia of Touch Scholarpedia Series editor Eugene Izhikevich, San Diego, USA [email protected] More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13574 [email protected] Tony J. Prescott • Ehud Ahissar Eugene Izhikevich Editors Scholarpedia of Touch [email protected] Editors Tony J. Prescott Eugene Izhikevich Department of Psychology Brain Corporation University of Sheffield San Diego, CA Sheffield USA UK Ehud Ahissar Department of Neurobiology Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot Israel Scholarpedia ISBN 978-94-6239-132-1 ISBN 978-94-6239-133-8 (eBook) DOI 10.2991/978-94-6239-133-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015948155 © Atlantis Press and the author(s) 2016 This book, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced for commercial purposes in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system known or to be invented, without prior permission from the Publisher. Printed on acid-free paper [email protected] Preface Touch is the ability to understand the world through physical contact. The noun “touch” and the verb “to touch” derive from the Old French verb “tochier”. Touch perception is also described by the adjectives tactile, from the Latin “tactilis”, and haptic, from the Greek “haptόs”. Academic research concerned with touch is also often described as haptics. The aim of Scholarpedia of Touch, first published by Scholarpedia (www. scholarpedia.org), is to provide a comprehensive set of articles, written by leading researchers and peer reviewed by fellow scientists, detailing the current scientific understanding of the sense of touch and of its neural substrates in animals including humans.