Use specific examples to discuss the tradeoffs. Draw an outline of a vertebrate brain and name its major areas.
Every sensory system relies on receptor cells that transduce a stimulus into an electrical signal.
This clearly requires some significant amplification. In mammals, somatosensory, visual, auditory, and olfactory sensory systems all project to the cerebral cortex. Justify your answer by referring to and comparing specific details of cortical anatomy and physiology. Describe several main findings resulting from the study of the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system and their implications for the study and understanding of local circuit function in larger, more complex systems. Please give one or two specific examples.