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finding:tadpoles-with-ectopic-eyes-on-tails-can-see-and-learn-effectively-in-visual-assaysTadpoles with ectopic eyes on tails can see and learn effectively in visual assays.
Blackiston & Levin 2013 finding showing plasticity of sensorimotor integration.
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- Example of innate problem-solving capacity.
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- remappingassociated_withThe process of reinterpreting and recontextualizing memory engrams for new bodies and environments.
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- Ectopic eyes on tadpole tails support visual learning despite connecting to the spinal cord.restatesFrom Blackiston & Levin (2013), shows plasticity of brain and body.
- Tadpoles with ectopic eyes on tail can see and integrate sensory input from aberrant locationrestatesDemonstrates neural plasticity: brain adapts behavioral programs to sensory input from abnormal anatomical locations within single organism lifetime.
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- Empirical evidence of functional plasticity and radical phenotypic change at individual level; demonstrates cellular hardware adaptation to novel configurations.
- Ectopic eyes in Xenopus tadpoles connect to the spinal cord and enable visual learning despite incorrect anatomical location.
- Result from Blackiston & Levin 2013: sensory data from displaced eyes can be used for learned behavior without evolutionary adaptation.
- Evidence of neural plasticity; demonstrates mind's independence from specific body layout.
- Demonstrates competence of eye primordia to achieve function in novel locations.
- Tadpoles bearing eyes placed on tails can see and learn effectively despite novel neural connections (to spinal cord or gut), demonstrating plastic sensorimotor reinterpretation.
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- findingEctopic eyes on tadpole tails support visual learning despite connecting to the spinal cord.
- findingTadpoles with ectopic eyes on tail can see and integrate sensory input from aberrant location
- claimTadpoles with ectopic eyes on their tails can see out of them, demonstrating radical functional plasticity without evolutionary adaptation.