http://www.medgadget.com/2013/02/thoughts-detected-in-brains-of-zebrafish-looking-for-dinner.html
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Thoughts Visualized in Brains of Zebrafish Looking for Dinner
Okay, so this is definitely intended to play off Dr. E's love of Zebrafish, but nevertheless, I think you will find it interesting. Basically, Japanese scientists from the National Institute of Genetics were able to create a visuotopic map in real time in a natural condition using the Zebrafish response to a "tasty paramecium". Make sure to watch the video because you can actually see the fish thinking.. Pretty cool!
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ReplyDeleteWell, that is really cool, Annie! I really do not know what to interpret those signalings within the images of the brain on that video. Actually, I think it would be neat if they would indicate in the video when the paramecium comes into the fish's view. So, I guess they used a fish with already transfected GFP at zygote state? The top left corner of the image shows they made a crossing of one with GFP genotype and another with Gal4...it seems... I don't know, but it would interesting to see how they planned and conducted that experiment.
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