Reversal tasks have been important tools for allowing investigation of flexible behavior.
Another, rather older answer to the evolutionary conundrum is that the bipedal stance we adopted when we left the trees made room for a wide range of flexible behaviors.
Thus, the modest increase in computational cost associated with the addition of interneurons allows for more flexible behavior than would be seen in a simple chemotaxis strategy.
It has been known for decades that the MF cortex including anterior cingulate is involved in flexible behavior adaptation.
In other words, she said, the study suggests that dogs have the "biological capability" for more complex and flexible behavior than cats.
Since neurons are the brain's "information-processing units," Herculano-Houzel explained, "whatever species has the most neurons in the cerebral cortex is therefore expected to be capable of more complex and flexible behavior". For example, she added, humans have about twice as many cortical neurons as gorillas.
But the interaction between the genome and the environment is also expected to be present in shorter time frames and to be reversible in order to accommodate labile and transient changes in behavioral states in order for flexible adaptive behavior to evolve [ 2, 15].
Collectively, these findings show the critical interplay between prefrontal NE and nicotinic systems for development of social and flexible behavior.
The remaining two styles, (3) "low-anxiety subjects" (tolerance for uncertainty and tolerance for arousal) and (4) "fluctuating subjects" (intolerance for uncertainty and intolerance for arousal) are characterized by very fluctuating (or flexible) behavior, which leads to less predictive behavior.
Sleep is a flexible behavior, and it is very normal for children to look for their parents if they wake up at night.[3].
Cognitive control supports flexible behavior by selecting actions that are consistent with our goals and appropriate for our environment.
