Neurophysiology Project Ideas

  • Sensory information
    • Visual (electroretinogram, behavior)
      • light cycles, wavelentghs of light
    • Chemosensation (electroantennogram, behavior, satiation)
    • Magnetoreception
    • Mechanoreception (electrophysiological)
    • Auditory
    • What kind of receptors?
  • Integrative functions
    • Sleep
    • Memory and learning
    • Orientation/navigation
    • Manipulation of neurotransmitters/neurotransmitter analogs
  • Motor output
    • Responses to above stimuli
    • ≥Loading≤ (increasing mass and recording or timing motor output, e.g. walking, flight)
    • Reaction time

Organisms

  • Protists
  • Acoelomates/Pseudocoelomates
    • Rotifers
    • Platyhelminthes
  • Protostomes:
    • Cockroaches
    • Crickets
    • Fruit flies
    • Blow flies
    • Crayfish
    • Daphnia
    • Ants
    • Spiders
    • Bees
  • Deuterostomes
    • Frogs
    • Toads
    • Salamanders
    • Tadpoles
    • Fish
    • Fish eggs
    • Humans