Topic: Anolis carolinensis

The lizard Anolis carolinensis is an interesting model organism in cognitive neuroscience as it possesses an evolutionary very early hippocampal homolog but no neocortex. Whereas behavioral studies suggest that lizards are able to perform similar hippocampus-dependent cognitive tasks as mammals, it is not known whether the functional organization in reptiles is the same as in mammals. One way to probe functional architecture is to investigate neural representations across different subregions, e.g. by immediate early gene imaging, which visualizes genomic responses of activated neuronal popula