What is "behavioural"

Usage examples of "behavioural".

We became convinced that we symbolized the future, in which an integrated neuroscience would emerge as a result of just such combinations of different brain and behavioural sciences.

Nonetheless, if in behavioural terms memory is a special case of experience, it is at least worth considering the possibility that the brain mechanisms of memory may be special cases of neural plasticity.

Changes in behavioural responses occur not in an individual but over many generations as a consequence of evolution.

Unlike hydra, they have clearly defined head and tail ends, and a much more elaborate behavioural repertoire.

Nonetheless, with the evolution of planaria-like organisms appeared both the rudimentary forms of a nervous system and the basic behavioural building blocks out of which fully developed memory processes are eventually fashioned.

Crustacea alive and flourishing today - but it certainly affects the extent of their behavioural repertoire.

Just because non-human animal memories can be expressed only in behavioural terms, the possibility always arises that what we are measuring is an aspect of the behaviour rather than the memory.

Its rather limited behavioural repertoire is virtually confined to eating, sex and locomotion by means of convulsive wriggles.

It has a seemingly simple and limited behavioural repertoire, including various forms of learning, while its relatively easily mapped central nervous system contains only a small number of cells - no more than 20,000 neurons in all, arranged in a system of distributed ganglia and including amongst them a population of very large cells which can be recognized easily and reproducibly from animal to animal.

Do any specific cells or synapses show changes which correspond to the behavioural adaptation?

In this system it is possible to replace the tactile, behavioural stimulus by its neurophysiological analogue, that is, by direct electrical stimulation of the sensory nerve inputs.

By the mid-1970s, it was clear that neither sensory inputs nor motor outputs had properties which corresponded to the behavioural habituation, as neither showed such decrements in electrical response.

Indeed it is even possible to produce a form of associative learning in which behavioural and neurophysiological inputs are mixed.

The cellular and biochemical changes which must be translated into behavioural processes such as memory formation must be precisely located in space and time, as the criteria with which I started this chapter have emphasized.

It was indeed a bit like an LTP effect, though generated not by the artificial injection of current but by a behavioural experience.