Invertebrate Learning and Memory

Understanding how memories are induced and maintained is one of the major outstanding questions in modern neuroscience. This is difficult to address in the mammalian brain due to its enormous complexity, and invertebrates offer major advantages for learning and memory studies because of their relative simplicity. Many important discoveries made in invertebrates have been found to be generally applicable to higher organisms, and the overarching theme of the proposed will be to integrate information from different levels of neural organization to help generate a complete account of learning and memory. Edited by two leaders in the field, Invertebrate Learning and Memory will offer a current and comprehensive review, with chapters authored by experts in each topic. The volume will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring behavioral, cellular, genetic, molecular, and computational investigations of memory. Coverage will include comparative cognition at the behavioral and mechanistic level, developments in concepts and methodologies that will underlie future advancements, and mechanistic examples from the most important vertebrate systems (nematodes, molluscs, and insects). Neuroscience researchers and graduate students with an interest in the neural control of cognitive behavior will benefit, as will as will those in the field of invertebrate learning.

1. Beyond the Cellular Alphabet of Learning and Memory in Invertebrates2. Action Selection3. Cognitive Components of Insect Behavior4. Exploring Brain Connectivity in Insect Model Systems of Learning and Memory5. 'Decision Making' in Larval Drosophila6. Optophysiological Approaches to Learning and Memory in Drosophila melanogaster7. Computational Analyses of Learning Networks8. Issues in Invertebrate Learning Raised by Robot Models9. Mechanosensory Learning and Memory in Caenorhabditis elegans10. Molecular and Cellular Circuits Underlying Caenorhabditis elegans Olfactory Plasticity11. Thermosensory Learning in Caenorhabditis elegans12. Age-Dependent Modulation of Learning and Memory in Caenorhabditis elegans13. Salt Chemotaxis Learning in Caenorhabditis elegans14. A Systems Analysis of Neural Networks Underlying Gastropod Learning and Memory15. Comparison of Operant and Classical Conditioning of Feeding Behavior in Aplysia16. Mechanisms of Short-Term and Intermediate-Term Memory in Aplysia17. Synaptic Mechanisms of Induction and Maintenance of Long-Term Sensitization18. Roles of Protein Kinase C and Protein Kinase M in Aplysia Learning19. Multisite Cellular and Synaptic Mechanisms in Hermissenda Pavlovian Conditioning20. Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Classical Conditioning in the Feeding System of Lymnaea21. Operant Conditioning of Respiration in Lymnaea22. Associative Memory Mechanisms in Terrestrial Slugs and Snails23. Observational and Other Types of Learning in Octopus24. The Neurophysiological Basis of Learning and Memory in Advanced Invertebrates25. Learning, Memory, and Brain Plasticity in Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)26. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Learning and Memory in the Crab Neohelice (Chasmagnathus) granulata27. Drosophila Memory Research through Four Eras28. Visual Learning and Decision Making in Drosophila melanogaster29. In Search of the Engram in the Honeybee Brain30. Neural Correlates of Olfactory Learning in the Primary Olfactory Center of the Honeybee Brain31. Memory Phases and Signaling Cascades in Honeybees32. Pheromones Acting as Social Signals Modulate Learning in Honeybees33. Extinction Learning and Memory Formation in the Honeybee34. Glutamate Neurotransmission and Appetitive Olfactory Conditioning in the Honeybee35. Cellular Mechanisms of Neuronal Plasticity in the Honeybee Brain36. Behavioral and Neural Analyses of Punishment Learning in Honeybees37. Brain Aging and Performance Plasticity in Honeybees38. Learning and Recognition of Identity in Ants39. Bounded Plasticity in the Desert Ant's Navigational Tool Kit40. Learning and Decision Making in a Social Context41. Olfactory and Visual Learning in Cockroaches and Crickets