Neuro project ideas

Sensory information

Visual (electroretinogram, behavior)

light cycles, wavelentghs of light

Chemosensation (electroantennogram, behavior, satiation)

Magnetoreception

Mechanoreception (electrophysiological)

Auditory

What kind of receptors?

Integrative functions

Sleep

Memory and learning

Orientation/navigation

Manipulation of neurotransmitters/neurotransmitter analogs

Motor output

Responses to above stimuli

≥Loading≤ (increasing mass and recording or timing motor output, e.g. walking, flight)

Reaction time

Organisms:

Protists

Acoelomates/Pseudocoelomates

Rotifers

Platyhelminthes

Protostomes:

Cockroaches

Crickets

Fruit flies

Blow flies

Crayfish

Daphnia

Ants

Spiders

Bees

Deuterostomes

Frogs

Toads

Salamanders

Tadpoles

Fish

Fish eggs

Humans