Abstract. Social interactions form key developmental cues for plasticity in the vertebrate brain. However, few experimental studies disentangle specific as

Abstract It is often assumed that group-living animals require larger brains in order to deal with the various social challenges they encounter. One such key challenge is the need to recognize and dis...

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Predoctoral Researcher 'Miquel Crusafont' - [ICPJA021] POSITION DESCRIPTION Predoctoral Researcher 'Miquel Crusafont' REFERENCE ICPJA021 NUMBER OF POSITIONS 1 AREA / RESEARCH GROUP Dep...

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career res...

Summary: An artificial selection experiment on guppies shows that enlargement of the telencephalon, relative to the rest of the brain, enhances performance in two distinct spatial learning strategies.

We compared the chemosensory recognition abilities of mainland and island Italian wall lizards (Podarcis siculus). Both populations discriminated between self and conspecific scents, but island lizar...