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Jörg-Peter Ewert

German neurophysiologist
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  • Foraging is an example of an instinct driven by impulses serving specific biological functions.
    instinct
    / Instinct as behaviour

    In the 1980s German neurophysiologist Jörg-Peter Ewert elegantly traced pattern recognition and motor command circuitry and determined how these two systems interface in the brain to effect prey detection and capture in the toad Bufo bufo. Ewert also determined that there is minimal involvement of experience or environmental input in…

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    In the 1980s German neurophysiologist Jörg-Peter Ewert elegantly traced pattern recognition and motor command circuitry and determined how these two systems interface in the brain to effect prey detection and capture in the toad Bufo bufo. Ewert also determined that there is minimal involvement of experience or environmental input in…

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