title: Invertebrate neurobiology: short-term memories for limb targeting.
abstract: Scanning movements made by stick insects' forelimbs are modified for several seconds after a brief contact with an object, suggesting that the neural networks controlling local limb movements in insects can form short-term positional memories.
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. J.E.Niven@sussex.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jeremy E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Niven
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001070:Appetitive Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D005121:Extremities / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D007313:Insecta / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*