ReviewNeuron2019
The Life of Behavior.
Review in Neuron, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers.
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Who cites it
74 citing papers in PubMed.
- The choice-wide behavioral association study: data-driven identification of interpretable behavioral components.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The Tower Foraging Park: A paradigm for studying cognitive and motor processes underlying behavioral flexibility in freely moving mice.iScience · 2026Article
- Decoding time from space: A review of the complication clock and its representation of temporal experience.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- On the Proper Treatment of Dynamics in Cognitive Science.Topics in cognitive science · 2026Review
- Divergent neural representations of space and task between physical and virtual navigation in macaques.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Same emotion, different stimuli: A context-sensitive method to evoke nostalgia.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
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- Ecologically-grounded observations offer unique insights into the embodied and embedded nature of infant learning.Human development · 2026Article
- Neuroscience of Behavior.NeuroSci · 2025Review
- Sensory Attenuation of Auditory P2 Responses is Modulated by the Sense of Action Timing Control.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- A neural manifold view of the brain.Nature neuroscience · 2025Review
- Inferring internal states across mice and monkeys using facial features.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Direct and indirect striatal projecting neurons exert strategy-dependent effects on decision-making.Science advances · 2025Article
- A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
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- From Multimodal Sensorimotor Integration to Semantic Networks: A Phylogenetic Perspective on Speech and Language Evolution.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Review
- DomeVR: Immersive virtual reality for primates and rodents.PloS one · 2025Article
- An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Review
- Ecological brain: reframing the study of human behaviour and cognition.Royal Society open science · 2024Review
- Individualistic reward-seeking strategies that predict response to nicotine emerge among isogenic male mice living in a micro-society.PLoS biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Neuroscience needs behavior. However, it is daunting to render the behavior of organisms intelligible without suppressing most, if not all, references to life. When animals are treated as passive stimulus-response, disembodied and identical machines, the life of behavior perishes. Here, we distill three biological principles (materiality, agency, and historicity), spell out their consequences for the study of animal behavior, and illustrate them with various examples from the literature. We propose to put behavior back into context, with the brain in a species-typical body and with the animal's body situated in the world; stamp Newtonian time with nested ontogenetic and phylogenetic processes that give rise to individuals with their own histories; and supplement linear cause-and-effect chains and information processing with circular loops of purpose and meaning. We believe that conceiving behavior in these ways is imperative for neuroscience.
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