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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 | 1:04 a.m.

Food For Thought - Fish Brain Activity Recorded For First Time

This is what a thought looks like. Neurons inside the brain of a zebrafish flash orange as it contemplates a meal, a single cell paramecium, swimming around the fish's head. By gentically engineerig rhe fish with a fluorescent protein inside specific neurons of the brain where visual stumilii are processed, researchers in Japan were able to watch the fish think in real time.
 
 
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