{"id":171206,"date":"2023-09-03T19:28:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T00:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/decoding-decision-making-insect-brains-are-more-complex-than-we-thought"},"modified":"2023-09-03T19:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T00:28:05","slug":"decoding-decision-making-insect-brains-are-more-complex-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/decoding-decision-making-insect-brains-are-more-complex-than-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"Decoding Decision-Making: Insect Brains Are More Complex Than We Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/decoding-decision-making-insect-brains-are-more-complex-than-we-thought2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>The mushroom body\u2014a key area in the brains of arthropods like insects\u2014plays a crucial role in abstract behavioral decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the long-standing belief that insects react purely on stimulus-response, the study shows they can actually make nuanced decisions based on experiences. The researchers recorded feeding behavior alongside neural signals.<\/p>\n<p>This has implications for understanding not just insect behavior but also basic neurobiological principles that are similar in humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: The mushroom body\u2014a key area in the brains of arthropods like insects\u2014plays a crucial role in abstract behavioral decision-making. Contrary to the long-standing belief that insects react purely on stimulus-response, the study shows they can actually make nuanced decisions based on experiences. The researchers recorded feeding behavior alongside neural signals. This has implications for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}