In article <25a53i$349 at rhino.cis.vutbr.cz>, tgrove at psycho.fme.vutbr.cz (Tom
Grove) wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I faintly remember reading (or being told) that some variety of
> sea slug has only sixteen (or similar small number) of neurons.
I think your wires got crossed. I work on Aplysia californica, probably
the most famous sea slug of them all (It's actually a sea hare). Aplysia
have approximately 10,000 neurons. Hermissenda, another mollusc, has
approximately 2000 neurons. Nematodes have approximately 200 neurons.
If you are looking for a simple circuit here is some work done on Aplysia.
For instance 2 motor neurons control constriction in the animals' siphon
and only 5 motor neurons control flaring of the siphon.
While the lobster has several hundred thousand neurons, the stomatogastric
ganglion has only 16 neurons. This is a very useful and well
studied/modeled system. See work by Nussbaum and also Silversten(?).
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