This is a depository of material connected to the workshop "What is is like to be an Atlantic salmon?". It is written and maintained by Jarl Giske.
Here is a quite recent version of the ms.
Jarl Giske: To be an Atlantic salmon video PDF
Katja Enberg: The UN perspective video PDF
Knut Wiik Vollset: What senses are used to make life changing decisions video PDF
Magda Dumitru: What is it to be an animal? PDF
Marc Mangel: What Is it like to be (an Atlantic) salmon? PDF
Andy Higginson: A behavioural ecology perspective on what it is to be a salmon. PDF
Steve Railsback: To be a salmon in a river video PDF
Anders Frugård Opdal: How salmon (and its brain) is changed by experiences video PDF
Tore S Kristiansen: The salmon's quality of life .. and the predictive brain video PDF
Ivar Rønnestad: To feed or not to feed - that is my question video PDF
Sergey Budaev: The salmon machine video PDF
Nagel 1974: What is it like to be a bat?
Jarl's talk:
Anderson 1972: More is different.
Bubic & al 2010: Prediction, cognition and the brain.
Budaev & al 2018: AHA: A general cognitive architecture for Darwinian agents.
Budaev & al 2019: Decision-making from the animal perspective: Bridging ecology and subjective cognition.
Budaev & al 2020: Computational animal welfare: towards cognitive architecture models of animal sentience, emotion and wellbeing.
Clark 2013: Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science.
FitzGerald & al 2014: Model averaging, optimal inference, and habit formation.
Giske & al 1998: Modelling spatial dynamics of fish.
Grafen 1984: Natural selection, kin selection and group selection.
Hoffmeyer 2008. We do not have this as pdf, but a related text from 2002: Reading Hoffmeyer, rethinking biology.
Jensen & al 2021: Hormonal adjustments to future expectations impact growth and survival in juvenile fish.
Nesse 2013: Tinbergen’s four questions, organized: a response to Bateson and Laland.
Soylu 2016: An embodied approach to understanding: making sense of the world through simulated bodily activity.
Tinbergen 1963: On aims and methods of ethology.
Weidner & al 2020: Hormones as adaptive control systems in juvenile fish.
Magda's talk:
Bshary & Triki 2022: Fish ecology and cognition: insights from studies on wild and wild-caught teleost fishes.
Cleeremans 2011: The radical plasticity thesis: how the brain learns to be conscious.
Cleeremans 2022: Consciousness matters: phenomenal experience has functional value.
Mather & al 2016: Norepinephrine ignites local hotspots of neuronal excitation: How arousal amplifies selectivity in perception and memory.
Marc's talk:
Clark & Mangel 1988: Dynamic Modeling in Behavioral Ecology.
Dobzhansky 1973: Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Fleming 1998: Pattern and variability in the breeding system of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), with comparisons to other salmonids.
Gerhart & Kirschner 1997: Cells, Embryos and Evolution.
Mangel & Clark 2000: Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology.
Mangel 1994: Climate change and salmonid life history variation.
Nagel 1974: What is it like to be a bat?
Rikardsen & al 2004: Modelling the life-history variation of Arctic charr.
Satterthwaite & al 2009: Steelhead life history on California's Central Coast: Insights from a state-dependent model.
Stearley & Smith 1993: Phylogeny of the Pacific trouts and salmons (Oncorhynchus) and genera of the family Salmonidae.
Thorpe & al 1998: Modelling the proximate basis of salmonid life-history variation, with application to Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L..
Anders's talk:
Birse 1980: Neuronal increase in various areas of the nervous system of the nervous system of the guppy, Lebistes.
Braithwaite VA & AGV Salvanes 2005. Environmental variability in the early rearing environment generates behaviourally flexible cod: implications for rehabilitating wild populations. Proc R Soc B 272:1107–1113
Braithwaite et al 1996: Can juvenile Atlantic salmon use multiple cue systems in spatial learning?
Brandão et al 2015: Isolation impairs cognition in a social fish.
Bredy & al 2003: Partial reversal of the effect of maternal care on cognitive function through environmental enrichment.
Bshary & al 2014: Social cognition in fishes.
Burns JG & al 2009. Rearing environment affects the brain size of guppies: Lab-reared guppies have smaller brains than wild-caught guppies. Ethology 115:122–133
Dunlap KD 2016. Fish neurogenesis in context: Assessing environmental influences on brain plasticity within a highly labile physiology and morphology. Brain Behav Evol 87:156–166
Ebbesson and Braithwaite 2012: Environmental effects on fish neural plasticity and cognition.
Gonda et al 2009: Habitat dependent and independent plastic responses to social environment in the nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) brain.
Gonda A & al 2010: Predation and competition mediated brain plasticity in Rana temporaria tadpoles.
Gonda A & al 2012: Brain development and predation: plastic responses depend on evolutionary history. Biol Lett 8:249-252
Guo & al 2022: Social isolation affects intra specific interaction behaviour and reduces the size of the cerebellar brain region in juvenile
Atlantic salmon Salmo salar.
Herzeg & al 2015: Experimental evidence for sex specific plasticity in adult brain.
Joyce and Brown 2019: Rapid plastic changes in brain morphology in response to acute changes in predation pressure in juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and northern redbelly dace (Phoxinus eos).
Kihslinger RL & Nevitt 2006: Early rearing environment impacts cerebellar growth in juvenile salmon.
Kihslinger RL & al 2006. Environmental rearing conditions produce forebrain differences in wild Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. Comp Biochem Physiol A 145:145–151
Knudsen 2004: Sensitive periods in the development of the brain and behaviour.
Kotrschal 2012: Inside the heads of David and Goliath: environmental effects on brain morphology among wild and growth-enhanced coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch.
Kotrschal and Taborsky 2010: Environmental change enhances cognitive abilities in fish.
Kotrschal et al 1998: Fish brains: evolution and environmental relationships.
Kruska 2005: On the evolutionary significance of encephalization in some eutherian mammals: Effects of adaptive radiation, domestication, and feralization.
Larsen et al 2014: Reduced rearing density increases postrelease migration success of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts.
Lema et al 2005: Proliferation zones in the salmon telencephalon and evidence for environmental influence on proliferation rate.
Marchetti and Nevitt 2003: Effects of hatchery rearing on brain structures of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss.
Maruska et al 2013: Social descent with territory loss causes rapid behavioral endocrine and transcriptional changes in the brain.
Mayer et el 2011: Domestication causes rapid changes in heart and brain morphology in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).
Mes D & al 2018. Neurobiology of wild and hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon: How nurture drives neuroplasticity.
Mes D & al 2019. Effects of environmental enrichment on forebrain neural plasticity and survival success of stocked Atlantic salmon. J Exp Biol 222:jeb212258
Näslund J & al 2012: Early enrichment effects on brain development in hatchery reared salmon Salmo salar: No evidence for a critical period.
Näslund J & al 2017: Environment dependent plasticity and ontogenetic changes in the brain of hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon.
Näslund J & al 2019: Fish density, but not environmental enrichment, affects the size of cerebellum in the brain of juvenile hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon. Environ Biol Fish 102:705–712
Park and Bell 2010: Variation of telencephalon morphology of the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in relation to inferred ecology.
Salas et al 2003: Evolution of forebrain and spatial cognition in vertebrates: Conservation across diversity.
Salas et al 2006: Neuropsychology of learning and memory in teleost fish.
Salvanes AGV & al 2007. Effects of early experience on group behaviour in fish.
Salvanes AGV & al 2013. Environmental enrichment promotes neural plasticity and cognitive ability in fish. Proc R Soc B 280:20131331
Schmidt-Hieber et al 2004: Enhanced synaptic plasticity in newly generated granule cells in the adult hippocampus.
Sørensen et al 2007: Social regulation of neurogenesis in teleosts.
von Krogh K & al 2010. Forebrain cell proliferation behaviour and physiology of zebrafish kept in enriched or barren environments. Physiol Behav 101:32–39
Zupanc and Sirbulenscu 2011: Adult neurogenesis and neuronal regeneration in the central nervous system of teleost fish.
Zupanc GHK 2006: Neurogenesis and neuronal regeneration in the adult fish brain. J Comp Physiol A 192:649–670
Tore's talk:
Conant & Ashby 1970: Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system.
Korte & al 2007: A new animal welfare concept based on allostasis.
Perathoner & al 2016: Potential of zebrafish as a model for exploring the role of the amygdala in emotional memory and motivational behavior.
Sterling 2012: Allostasis: a model of predictive regulation.
Williams & al 2013: The function of fin rays as proprioceptive sensors in fish.
Sergey's talk:
Bossaerts & Murawski 2017: Computational complexity and human decision-making.
Bowers & Davis 2012: Bayesian just-so stories in psychology and neuroscience.
Bubic & al 2010: Prediction, cognition and the brain.
Budaev & al 2020: Computational animal welfare: towards cognitive architecture models of animal sentience, emotion and wellbeing.
Føre & al 2018: Precision fish farming: A new framework to improve production in aquaculture.
Giske & al 2013: Effects of the emotion system on adaptive behavior.
Hesslow 2016: The current status of the simulation theory of cognition.
Higginson & al 2018: Trust your gut: using physiological states as a source of information is almost as effective as optimal Bayesian learning.
Soylu 2016: An embodied approach to understanding: making sense of the world through simulated bodily activity.
Trotsos 1993: The role of computational complexity in perceptual theory.
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