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Reuse of identified neurons in multiple neural circuits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Jeremy E. Niven  and
Lars Chittka
Jeremy E. Niven
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom. jen22@cam.ac.ukhttp://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?jen22
Lars Chittka
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom. l.chittka@qmul.ac.ukhttp://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/
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Abstract

The growing recognition by cognitive neuroscientists that areas of vertebrate brains may be reused for multiple purposes either functionally during development or during evolution echoes a similar realization made by neuroscientists working on invertebrates. Because of these animals' relatively more accessible nervous systems, neuronal reuse can be examined at the level of individual identified neurons and fully characterized neural circuits.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 285
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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