Dec 29, 2006 · The sea slug Aplysia californica, a red, green or brown hermaphrodite that can grow up to 16 inches long, has the biggest brain cells, or neurons, in the animal kingdom, at up to a...

May 4, 2020 · In a strange sea slug experiment, scientists determined that learning influences behavior by inducing multiple, simultaneous changes to synapses — the connections between brain cells.

As a young neuroscientist studying learning and memory, Eric Kandel made a move that his colleagues considered career suicide: he switched his model organism from cats to Mediterranean sea slugs.

Sep 14, 2023 · A University of Massachusetts Amherst neuroscientist has been awarded a $3.1 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke to advance knowledge on human brain development by using an unusual subject: the brain of the sea slug.

Sep 15, 2023 · A University of Massachusetts Amherst neuroscientist has been awarded a $3.1 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke to advance knowledge on human brain...

Dec 30, 2011 · Using sea slugs as models, scientists someday may be able to design learning protocols that improve long-term memory formation in humans, a new study suggests.

May 14, 2013 · Neuroscientists love Aplysia. They are a type of sea slug that grows to be about a foot long. With only 20,000 nerve cells – compared with about 100 billion found in the human brain – Aplysia...

Nov 7, 2024 · Even cultures of neurons in Petri dishes show the spacing effect: they respond more strongly to several excitatory pulses spaced in time than to a single long pulse of the same total length. Our interest in the spacing effect stems …

Dec 28, 2006 · Beneath a slimy façade, the sea slug is somewhat of a brainiac. At any given time within a single brain cell of this marine snail (Aplysia), more than 10,000 genes are hard at work, suggests a...

Apr 26, 2016 · As you can imagine, life is not very complicated for sea slugs. They use their brains mainly to find food, avoid becoming food and to reproduce. While the human brain and nervous system are wired with hundreds of billions of nerve cells, or neurons, sea slugs can get by with tens of thousands.