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Brain morphology of the threespine stickleback (
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- Simple life, simple minds? How habitat simplification in aquatic ecosystems shape fish cognition.Animal cognition · 2026Review
- Building neuroanatomical resources for three-spined sticklebacks: Brain areas important for social behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Social fish have larger brains and greater relative telencephalon sizes: support for the social brain hypothesis from wild, intraspecific comparisons.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Evolution of Plasticity in Brain Morphology.Brain, behavior and evolution · 2025Review
- Habitat complexity influences neuron number in six species of Puerto RicanBiology letters · 2024Article
- Bold and bright: shy and supple? The effect of habitat type on personality-cognition covariance in the Aegean wall lizard (Podarcis erhardii).Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Differences in brain morphology of brown trout across stream, lake, and hatchery environments.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Jumping spiders: An exceptional group for comparative cognition studies.Learning & behavior · 2021Review
- Intraspecific brain size variation between coexisting sunfish ecotypes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Brain differences in ecologically differentiated sticklebacks.Current zoology · 2018Article
- Brain morphology of the threespine stickleback (Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
The Clever Foraging Hypothesis asserts that organisms living in a more spatially complex environment will have a greater neurological capacity for cognitive processes related to spatial memory, navigation, and foraging. Because the telencephalon is often associated with spatial memory and navigation tasks, this hypothesis predicts a positive association between telencephalon size and environmental complexity. The association between habitat complexity and brain size has been supported by comparative studies across multiple species but has not been widely studied at the within-species level. We tested for covariation between environmental complexity and neuroanatomy of threespine stickleback (
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