Lectures 9, 10: Neural Basis of Escape Behavior

Dr. Robert Huber
office: LSC 227
phone: 2-7492
Email: lobsterman@caspar.bgsu.edu

Reading Assignement

• Chapter 3: Giant Neurons and Escape Behavior. pp 42-75

Food for Thought

• "I am coming more and more to the conviction that the rudiments of every human behavioral mechanism will be found far down in the evolutionary scale and also represented even in primitive activities of the nervous system" -- Karl Lashley, 1951

Links of interest

• Lobster Defense and Escape
• Don Edwards Homepage
• Stomatogastric system of crustaceans
• Cockroach Phylogeny
• Cockroach Escape Behavior
• Neuroethology of Cockroach Escape Behavior