Gerlai Robert
Department of Psychology, Rm CCT4004, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada.
Biol Futur. 2025 May 2. doi: 10.1007/s42977-025-00257-3.
This short review appears in a special issue assembled to celebrate the 90th birthday of a Hungarian ethologist, Professor Vilmos Csányi. As such, it includes some autobiographical details specific to that scientist and the author of this review. However, these details also serve an important general message. They exemplify how science, i.e., specifically the use of fish in the analysis of behaviour and brain function progressed from the mid-1970s to the current day. They illuminate how scientists choose their study species, and how this choice influences the research questions one may be able to pose. The review discusses why the zebrafish has become a popular research subject of biology, including behavioural neuroscience. It argues that behavioural analysis should be an integral part of research into the analysis of brain function. It considers the dichotomy between the historical effect of North American behaviourism vs. the legacy of European Nobel laureate ethologists. It demonstrates, through a theoretical example, why merging these two "schools" of thoughts is the appropriate way to conduct behavioural research. It provides a few examples for how combining knowledge of ethology and ecology of the species with systematic laboratory studies may be beneficial. And it presents a brief outlook for the future of fish in biology research.
这篇简短的综述发表在一期特刊上，该特刊是为庆祝匈牙利动物行为学家维尔莫斯·察伊尼教授90岁生日而汇编的。因此，它包含了一些特定于那位科学家以及本综述作者的自传性细节。然而，这些细节也传达了一个重要的普遍信息。它们例证了科学，即特别是在行为和脑功能分析中对鱼类的运用，是如何从20世纪70年代中期发展到如今的。它们阐明了科学家如何选择研究物种，以及这种选择如何影响人们可能提出的研究问题。该综述讨论了斑马鱼为何已成为生物学，包括行为神经科学领域受欢迎的研究对象。它认为行为分析应该是脑功能分析研究中不可或缺的一部分。它考量了北美行为主义的历史影响与欧洲诺贝尔奖获得者动物行为学家的遗产之间的二分法。它通过一个理论例子展示了为何将这两种“思想流派”融合是开展行为研究的恰当方式。它提供了一些例子，说明将物种的行为学和生态学知识与系统的实验室研究相结合可能会有怎样的益处。并且它对鱼类在生物学研究中的未来给出了一个简要展望。
