{"title":"Form, function and mechanics of femoral chordotonal organs in insects","authors":"Simran Virdi, Sanjay P Sane","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101459","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101459","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Insect legs function as locomotory organs as well as highly sensitive multisensory probes. Specifically, they contain mechanosensory femoral chordotonal organs (FeCO) that monitor femorotibial movements and mediate behaviours ranging from local leg reflexes to whole-body movements. The structure and material properties of FeCO prefilter incoming mechanical signals, which are encoded by the underlying mechanosensory neurons. FeCO consists of functionally specialised subunits within which pairs of neurons are organised into scolopidia that connect to tibia via a receptor apodeme, an invagination of the tibial cuticle. In some hemimetabolous insects, the apodeme connects to individual scolopidia at different points, activating them at different tibial positions and mechanically fractionating the stimulus range. However, in some holometabolous insects, mechanical stimulus is channelled into different components and directed to various FeCO subunits. FeCO thus serves as an ideal mechanosensory organ to study the role of structure in determining sensory function.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 101459"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142705755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A light at the end of the axon: genetically encoded fluorescent indicators shine light on the dopamine system","authors":"Zacharoula Kagiampaki , Xuehan Zhou , Paul J Lamothe-Molina , Tommaso Patriarchi","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101460","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101460","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this focused review, we center the attention on detection technologies used for monitoring dopamine (DA) release during animal behavior. We briefly examine the evolution of DA measurement techniques, from traditional methods like microdialysis and fast-scan cyclic voltammetry to cutting-edge genetically encoded fluorescent indicators (GEFIs). We then delve into how this latest generation technologies are contributing to unraveling some of the intricacies of the DA system, ranging from the spatial and molecular regulation of DA release, to the underlying rules governing its system-level functions. By showcasing recent exemplar works, we highlight how these modern tools provide new insights into the heterogeneity of DA signaling across different brain regions and help refining the theoretical framework of DA functions extending beyond the conventional reward prediction error model. Finally, we provide important methodological recommendations to be taken into consideration when employing DA GEFIs in neuroscience research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 101460"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142659038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dopaminergic computations for perceptual decisions","authors":"Samuel Liebana, Matthias Fritsche, Armin Lak","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101458","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101458","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Studies linking the brain’s dopamine signals with learning and decision making have enjoyed enormous progress using predominantly value-based decision-making tasks. However, recent studies have demonstrated pervasive dopamine signaling also during perceptual decision making. These signals have been shown to depend on both feedback and perceptual parameters, such as perceptual decision confidence and sensory statistics. Here, we review recent studies investigating dopamine signals in simple and complex forms of perceptual decision tasks across species and dopaminergic circuits. We discuss how reinforcement learning (RL) models can account for key aspects of learning during perceptual decision making and its dopaminergic underpinnings, thus bridging the gap with the literature on dopamine in value-based decisions. Finally, we propose that RL may provide a promising framework to address current challenges in the dopamine literature, such as explaining the function of its heterogeneous responses and its role in learning from naive to expert.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 101458"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142659036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From sensory motor and perceptual development to primary consciousness in the fetus: converging neural, behavioral, and imaging correlates of cognition-mediated emergent transitions","authors":"Gerry Leisman , Rahela Alfasi , Amedeo D’Angiulli","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101455","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101455","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We reviewed current evidence from experimental, clinical, and animal research about the level and content of cognition and consciousness in the fetus from convergent observations of behavior and measurable neurobiological changes, including neuroimaging findings. Between the second and the third trimesters, there are compelling observations that the fetus is capable of basic cognitive and behavioral processes that can scaffold the emergence of primary consciousness, mediated and governed by the connectivities between brainstem, thalamic, cortical subplate circuitry, and the maturing cortex. This work integrates the most recent transdisciplinary body of evidence demonstrating that the building of functional connectivities and integration of complex brain functions typically associated with minimal human consciousness start early <em>in utero</em> and suggesting that consciousness is not an all-or-none process but rather a continuum of increasingly complex and emergent interactions within multiple neural networks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 101455"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nonsynaptic encoding of behavior by neuropeptides","authors":"Gáspár Jékely , Rafael Yuste","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101456","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101456","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A basic tenet of neuroscience is that animal behavior is generated by neural circuits that operate through synaptic transmission. On top of this synaptic ‘chassis’ of nervous systems, neuropeptides and hormones have traditionally been considered as slow neuromodulatory signals that fine-tune synaptic circuits. However, neuropeptides can generate many behaviors, including quite complex ones, from cnidarians to humans. Moreover, neuropeptide actions span larger temporal scales than fast synaptic transmission and are thus better matched to behavioral time courses than synaptic circuits. Furthermore, in some metazoans, the effects of neuropeptides are independent of synaptic connectivity, and in many species, the systemic application of neuropeptides can trigger selective behaviors. Based on this, we argue that nonsynaptic neuropeptide signaling via chemical networks — forming a ‘chemical’ connectome — represents the ancestral mechanism to encode behavioral sequences, whereas synaptic networks co-evolved as a specialization complementing chemical networks in the control of behaviors and computational functions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 101456"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity of REM sleep","authors":"Sho T Yamaguchi , Zhiwen Zhou , Hiroaki Norimoto","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101457","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101457","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recently, progress has been made in understanding sleep and wakefulness regulation at the molecular and neurocircuitry levels. Research on the evolution of sleep has also advanced remarkably across a wide range of animal species, from invertebrates to vertebrates. Pioneering studies on electroencephalography and other physiological features of sleep have raised the concept of two-stage sleep, categorizing sleep in some animals into two stages: slow-wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REMS). Currently, it is widely accepted that SWS and REMS occur in mammals and birds. Although these sleep stages have been observed in a wide range of animals, debates continue regarding their roles and evolutionary origins. This review discusses the diversity of REMS by evaluating their reported similarities and differences across various species.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 101457"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142445123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stress-free indulgence: indulge adaptively to promote goal pursuit and well-being","authors":"Shuna S Khoo , Lile Jia , Junhua Dang , Ying Li","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101454","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101454","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People pursue long-term goals amidst abundant hedonic options made available by modern society’s technological and productivity advancements. Curiously, individuals often find their enjoyment in leisure and pleasure contaminated by stressful cognitive and affective reactions. We argue that the stunted experience of indulgence is an overlooked source of self-control problems and diminished well-being. We review the social cognitive process related to this notion of stressful indulgence and propose that an adaptive incorporation of indulgence into long-term pursuits, choosing the right type of indulgence, and mindful savoring can reduce the consternation and stress associated with hedonic activities. When done right, indulgence can be adaptive and stress free, facilitates goal pursuit, and promotes psychological resilience and well-being. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 101454"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142441530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Renée S Koolschijn , Bertalan Polner , Julie M Hoomans , Roshan Cools , Eliana Vassena , Hanneke EM den Ouden
{"title":"Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making","authors":"Renée S Koolschijn , Bertalan Polner , Julie M Hoomans , Roshan Cools , Eliana Vassena , Hanneke EM den Ouden","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101453","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101453","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Serotonin has been associated with a wide range of neural computations and behaviours, yet an overarching function of this neurotransmitter has been hard to pinpoint. Here, we combine recent theories and findings on serotonin and propose a framework where serotonin integrates information on resource availability and state value to represent a cost–benefit trade-off at the neural level. Critically, this framework supports meta-decision making, that is, the flexible allocation of resources to decision-making. We highlight a computational and neural implementation of this framework, and through this novel, lens interpret empirical findings in the domains of controllability and persistence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 101453"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142420002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feng Liu , Qianqian Ju , Qijian Zheng , Yujia Peng
{"title":"Artificial intelligence in mental health: innovations brought by artificial intelligence techniques in stress detection and interventions of building resilience","authors":"Feng Liu , Qianqian Ju , Qijian Zheng , Yujia Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101452","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101452","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The last few decades have witnessed a revolution in the field of mental health, brought about by state-of-the-art techniques of artificial intelligence (AI). Here, we review the evidence for the systematic application of AI for the detection and intervention of stress-related mental health problems. We first explore the potential application of AI in stress detection and screening through advanced computational techniques of machine learning algorithms that analyze biomarkers of stress and anxiety. Building on the accurate detection of mental health problems, we further review the evidence for AI-based stress interventions and propose the promising prospect of applying decoded neurofeedback as a personalized resilience-building intervention. Together, the current review assesses the effectiveness and major challenges of AI technologies in real-world applications and demonstrates the transforming impact of AI on the field of mental health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 101452"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142318672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“But why?” Dopamine and causal learning","authors":"Vijay MK Namboodiri","doi":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101443","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101443","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The computational and algorithmic role of striatal dopamine signaling has been one of the most investigated topics in systems neuroscience. Though there have been many hypotheses of dopamine function over the years, the reward prediction error (RPE) hypothesis has remained the most popular for decades. Despite substantial evidence consistent with this hypothesis, considerable recent evidence is also inconsistent with it. Accordingly, multiple alternate hypotheses of dopamine function have been recently proposed. Here, I review one such alternative from my lab stating that dopamine is a teaching signal for causal learning. I show that there are fundamental similarities between this and other recent hypotheses, and that this hypothesis is consistent with the core results supporting RPE coding. Therefore, RPE should be considered a provisional hypothesis of dopamine function requiring further evaluation, with a critical need for openly examining a host of recent experimental results inconsistent with the hypothesis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56191,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 101443"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142274722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}