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  1. Collective action or individual choice: Spontaneity and individuality contribute to decision-making in Drosophila

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2021, PLOS

    Björn Brembs

  2. Sensitivity to expression levels underlies differential dominance of a putative null allele of the Drosophila tßh gene in behavioral phenotypes

    Article • PLoS Biology, May 2021, PLOS

    Björn Brembs

  3. Reliable novelty: New should not trump true

    Article • PLoS Biology, February 2019, PLOS

    Björn Brembs

  4. How much expertise is it realistic to expect grant reviewers to have?

    Article • December 2015, Thinklab

    Björn Brembs

  5. What is the function of FoxP in operant self-learning?

    Article • November 2015, Thinklab

    Björn Brembs

  6. A value-based behavioural choice underlies phototaxis in Drosophila.

    Article • August 2015, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Björn Brembs

  7. Sub-strains of Drosophila Canton-S differ markedly in their locomotor behavior

    Article • F1000Research, April 2015, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Björn Brembs

  8. Open Science als eine Lösung der Infrastrukturkrise in der Wissenschaft

    Article • Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, April 2015, De Gruyter

    Björn Brembs

  9. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Feedback from network states generates variability in a probabilistic olfactory circuit.

    Article • March 2015, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  10. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Shared mushroom body circuits underlie visual and olfactory memories in Drosophila.

    Article • January 2015, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  11. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Humanized Foxp2 accelerates learning by enhancing transitions from declarative to procedural performance.

    Article • January 2015, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  12. How scientific are scientists, really?

    Article • The Winnower, January 2015, The Winnower, LLC

    Björn Brembs

  13. Booming university administrations

    Article • The Winnower, January 2015, The Winnower, LLC

    Björn Brembs

  14. Libraries are better than corporate publishers because...

    Article • The Winnower, January 2015, The Winnower, LLC

    Björn Brembs

  15. The cost of the rejection-resubmission cycle

    Article • The Winnower, January 2015, The Winnower, LLC

    Björn Brembs

  16. How Nature Magazine consistently prefers anecdote over data

    Article • The Winnower, January 2015, The Winnower, LLC

    Björn Brembs

  17. Dissecting a fly's course control system

    Article • The Winnower, January 2015, The Winnower, LLC

    Björn Brembs

  18. Watching a paradigm shift in neuroscience

    Article • The Winnower, January 2015, The Winnower, LLC

    Björn Brembs

  19. In which potatoes in France are like high-ranking journals in science

    Article • The Winnower, January 2015, The Winnower, LLC

    Björn Brembs

  20. When decade-old functionality would be progress – the desolate state of our scholarly infrastructure

    Article • Septentrio Conference Series, December 2014, University Library at Tromso

    Björn Brembs

  21. Sub-strains of Drosophila Canton-S differ markedly in their locomotor behavior

    Article • F1000Research, July 2014, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Björn Brembs

  22. Drosophila FoxP Mutants Are Deficient in Operant Self-Learning

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2014, PLOS

    Björn Brembs

  23. Decision-making in invertebrates

    Article • January 2014, Frontiers

    Björn Brembs

  24. Aplysia operant conditioning

    Article • Scholarpedia, January 2014, Scholarpedia

    Björn Brembs

  25. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Sensorimotor structure of Drosophila larva phototaxis.

    Article • October 2013, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  26. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Object tracking in motion-blind flies.

    Article • May 2013, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  27. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience.

    Article • May 2013, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  28. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Discriminating external and internal causes for heading changes in freely flying Drosophila.

    Article • March 2013, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  29. Invertebrate behavior—actions or responses?

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Björn Brembs

  30. Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Björn Brembs, Professor Marcus R Munafo

  31. Kin Selection

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    Björn Brembs

  32. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Overcoming motor "forgetting" through reinforcement of learned actions.

    Article • December 2012, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  33. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Dispensable, redundant, complementary, and cooperative roles of dopamine, octopamine, and serotonin in Drosophila melanogaster.

    Article • December 2012, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  34. Faculty Opinions recommendation of A subset of dopamine neurons signals reward for odour memory in Drosophila.

    Article • December 2012, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  35. Correction: Open Source Tracking and Analysis of Adult Drosophila Locomotion in Buridan's Paradigm with and without Visual Targets

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2012, PLOS

    Björn Brembs

  36. Open Source Tracking and Analysis of Adult Drosophila Locomotion in Buridan's Paradigm with and without Visual Targets

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2012, PLOS

    Björn Brembs

  37. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Ontogeny of classical and operant learning behaviors in zebrafish.

    Article • April 2012, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  38. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Neurosilence: profound suppression of neural activity following intracerebral administration of the protein synthesis inhibitor anisomycin.

    Article • April 2012, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  39. "What Needs to Happen in a Scholarly Publishing Reform?" Björn Brembs (FU Berlin)

    Article • February 2012, SciVee, Inc

    Björn Brembs

  40. Identification of neural circuits required for spontaneous behavioral variability

    Article • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2012, Frontiers

    Björn Brembs

  41. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Serotonin-mushroom body circuit modulating the formation of anesthesia-resistant memory in Drosophila.

    Article • November 2011, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  42. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Relating neuronal to behavioral performance: variability of optomotor responses in the blowfly.

    Article • November 2011, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  43. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Cerebellum shapes hippocampal spatial code.

    Article • October 2011, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  44. Faculty Opinions recommendation of A selectionist account of de novo action learning.

    Article • September 2011, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  45. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Three-dimensional reconstruction of brain-wide wiring networks in Drosophila at single-cell resolution.

    Article • September 2011, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  46. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Detection and avoidance of a carnivore odor by prey.

    Article • July 2011, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  47. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Heterotypic gap junctions between two neurons in the drosophila brain are critical for memory.

    Article • May 2011, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  48. Spontaneous decisions and operant conditioning in fruit flies

    Article • Behavioural Processes, May 2011, Elsevier

    Björn Brembs

  49. IgY Technology: Extraction of Chicken Antibodies from Egg Yolk by Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) Precipitation

    Article • Journal of Visualized Experiments, May 2011, MyJove Corporation

    Björn Brembs

  50. Faculty Opinions recommendation of What can the spinal cord teach us about learning and memory?

    Article • April 2011, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  51. Faculty Opinions recommendation of The reactions to light and to gravity in Drosophila and its mutants.

    Article • March 2011, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  52. Faculty Opinions recommendation of A selective role for dopamine in stimulus-reward learning.

    Article • January 2011, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  53. Faculty Opinions recommendation of A late-phase, long-term memory trace forms in the γ neurons of Drosophila mushroom bodies after olfactory classical conditioning.

    Article • January 2011, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  54. Towards a scientific concept of free will as a biological trait: spontaneous actions and decision-making in invertebrates

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Björn Brembs

  55. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Intrinsic biophysical diversity decorrelates neuronal firing while increasing information content.

    Article • October 2010, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  56. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Atypical reflexive gaze patterns on emotional faces in autism spectrum disorders.

    Article • September 2010, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  57. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Lobster attack induces sensitization in the sea hare, Aplysia californica.

    Article • August 2010, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  58. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Feeding-mediated distention inhibits swimming in the medicinal leech.

    Article • August 2010, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  59. Björn Brembs

    Article • Current Biology, July 2010, Elsevier

    Björn Brembs

  60. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Sleep deprivation specifically impairs short-term olfactory memory in Drosophila.

    Article • June 2010, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  61. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Identification of a neural circuit that underlies the effects of octopamine on sleep:wake behavior.

    Article • June 2010, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  62. Faculty Opinions recommendation of A wasp manipulates neuronal activity in the sub-esophageal ganglion to decrease the drive for walking in its cockroach prey.

    Article • April 2010, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  63. The biology of psychology

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Björn Brembs

  64. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Readiness discharge for spontaneous initiation of walking in crayfish.

    Article • January 2010, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  65. Attention-Like Deficit and Hyperactivity in a Drosophila Memory Mutant

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, January 2010, Society for Neuroscience

    Björn Brembs

  66. Faculty Opinions recommendation of More than synaptic plasticity: role of nonsynaptic plasticity in learning and memory.

    Article • January 2010, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  67. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Distinct inhibitory neurons exert temporally specific control over activity of a motoneuron receiving concurrent excitation and inhibition.

    Article • October 2009, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  68. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Endogenous human brain dynamics recover slowly following cognitive effort.

    Article • August 2009, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  69. Mushroom Bodies Regulate Habit Formation in Drosophila

    Article • Current Biology, August 2009, Elsevier

    Björn Brembs

  70. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Cellular and network mechanisms of operant learning-induced compulsive behavior in Aplysia.

    Article • July 2009, F1000Research

    Björn Brembs

  71. The neurobiology of spontaneous actions and operant learning in Drosophila

    Article • Nature Precedings, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Björn Brembs

  72. The neurobiology of spontaneous actions and operant learning in Drosophila

    Article • Nature Precedings, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Björn Brembs

  73. Reputation, authority and incentives. Or: How to get rid of the Impact Factor

    Article • Nature Precedings, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Björn Brembs, Dr Peter Binfield

  74. Reputation, authority and incentives. Or: How to get rid of the Impact Factor

    Article • Nature Precedings, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Björn Brembs

  75. Operant Conditioning

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Björn Brembs

  76. The Importance of Being Active

    Article • Journal of Neurogenetics, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Björn Brembs

  77. The neurobiology of spontaneous actions and operant learning in Drosophila

    Article • Neuroscience Research, January 2009, Elsevier

    Björn Brembs

  78. Mushroom-bodies regulate habit formation in Drosophila

    Article • Nature Precedings, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Björn Brembs

  79. Mushroom-bodies regulate habit formation in Drosophila

    Article • Nature Precedings, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Björn Brembs

  80. Double Dissociation of PKC and AC Manipulations on Operant and Classical Learning in Drosophila

    Article • Current Biology, August 2008, Elsevier

    Björn Brembs

  81. Operant Learning of Drosophila at the Torque Meter

    Article • Journal of Visualized Experiments, June 2008, MyJove Corporation

    Björn Brembs

  82. Flight Initiation and Maintenance Deficits in Flies with Genetically Altered Biogenic Amine Levels

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, October 2007, Society for Neuroscience

    Björn Brembs

  83. Order in Spontaneous Behavior

    Article • August 2007, SciVee, Inc

    Björn Brembs

  84. Order in Spontaneous Behavior

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2007, PLOS

    Björn Brembs

  85. Cognition in Invertebrates

    Article • January 2007, Elsevier

    Björn Brembs

  86. Different parameters support generalization and discrimination learning in Drosophila at the flight simulator

    Article • Learning & Memory, September 2006, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Björn Brembs

  87. Context and occasion setting in Drosophila visual learning

    Article • Learning & Memory, September 2006, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Björn Brembs

  88. The Drosophila black enigma: The molecular and behavioural characterization of the black1 mutant allele

    Article • Gene, May 2005, Elsevier

    Björn Brembs

  89. Extending In Vitro Conditioning in Aplysia to Analyze Operant and Classical Processes in the Same Preparation

    Article • Learning & Memory, July 2004, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Björn Brembs

  90. Operant conditioning in invertebrates

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, December 2003, Elsevier

    Björn Brembs

  91. Operant Reward Learning in Aplysia

    Article • Current Directions in Psychological Science, December 2003, SAGE Publications

    Björn Brembs

  92. Operant Reward Learning in Aplysia: Neuronal Correlates and Mechanisms

    Article • Science, May 2002, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Björn Brembs

  93. Hamilton's Theory

    Article • January 2001, Elsevier

    Björn Brembs

  94. The Operant and the Classical in Conditioned Orientation of Drosophila melanogaster at the Flight Simulator

    Article • Learning & Memory, March 2000, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Björn Brembs

  95. Chaos, Cheating and Cooperation: Potential Solutions to the Prisoner's Dilemma

    Article • Oikos, May 1996, JSTOR

    Björn Brembs

  96. Are more retractions due to more scrutiny?

    Article • The Winnower, LLC

    Björn Brembs

  97. What goes into making a scientific manuscript public?

    Article • The Winnower, LLC

    Björn Brembs

  98. What should a modern scientific infrastructure look like?

    Article • The Winnower, LLC

    Björn Brembs

  99. A study justifying waste of tax-funds?

    Article • The Winnower, LLC

    Björn Brembs