Volume 4 - 2010 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00028 This article is part of the Research TopicNeuroethologyView all 23 articles A model of alarm pheromone processing system in the ant brain Organization of the alarm pheromone processing system in the worker of the ant C obscuripes is schematically compared with the general odor processing system and sex-pheromone processing system of other insects representation of alarm pheromone information in the primary (antennal lobe) and a secondary (lateral horn) olfactory center This is in contrast to segregated representations of sex-pheromone information alarm pheromone-sensitive descending neurons may participate in the control of orientation behavior toward or away from the sources of the pheromone The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest This study was supported by grants from the Ministry of Education Sports and Technology of Japan (to Makoto Mizunami and Hiroshi Nishino) and Fyssen Foundation (to Nobuhiro Yamagata) Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher 94% of researchers rate our articles as excellent or goodLearn more about the work of our research integrity team to safeguard the quality of each article we publish which took root among Japanese immigrants to Hawaii in the Meiji era was performed by University of Hawaii students and others at a local theater in Mizunami The roughly 500 spectators applauded the folk performing art at the Aioi-za theater marking a “homecoming performance” after more than 130 years please disable the ad blocking feature and reload the page This website uses cookies to collect information about your visit for purposes such as showing you personalized ads and content By clicking “Accept all,” you will allow the use of these cookies Users accessing this site from EEA countries and UK are unable to view this site without your consent Students dressed in matching kimono and held Japanese umbrellas to perform the classic “Benten musume meo no shiranami” [“Benten the Maiden and the Five Thievest”] in both English and Japanese they delivered their lines in flowing Japanese This drew in great cheers and ohineri wrapped offerings of money from the audience I’m overwhelmed by the applause,” said Arlo Chiaki Rowe a 25-year-old third-generation Japanese American who performed the nagauta long epic song Immigration from Japan to Hawaii began in 1868 “Chushingura” (“The Faithful”) was performed at the university Kabuki classes and performances are still held at the university today Hawaiian Students to Celebrate 130 Years of Kabuki in Hawaii with Commemorative Program in Gifu; Kabuki Star Ichikawa Monnosuke Advises Our weekly ePaper presents the most noteworthy recent topics in an exciting © 2025 The Japan News - by The Yomiuri Shimbun Your browser does not support JavaScript, or it is disabled．Please check the site policy for more information National Report (JR Tokai) said May 20 it will “immediately suspend” all tunnel excavation work for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen Line in an area where wells and reservoirs are drying up JR Tokai in June will begin a borehole investigation in the Okute district of Mizunami city in Gifu Prefecture to determine the geological conditions It will consider its course of action for the tunnel construction work after viewing the results of the study JR Tokai President Shunsuke Niwa said at a May 16 news conference that the company would temporarily halt tunnel construction work and conduct a borehole investigation But he said the company’s plan to dig a tunnel to an area in front of where Okute residents live would not change Mizunami Mayor Koji Mizuno on May 17 demanded JR Tokai immediately stop all construction work and “analyze and investigate the cause of the problem and take necessary measures as soon as possible.” Gifu Governor Hajime Furuta also said he hopes JR Tokai would “take necessary measures as soon as possible while gaining the full understanding of local residents.” A JR Tokai representative said the decision to immediately suspend all tunnel construction work “was based on the concerns of the people of Okute and requests from Gifu Prefecture and Mizunami city.” The company has suspended construction since May 17 for equipment inspections But only on May 20 did it decide not to resume the digging work The company confirmed that water levels have dropped at 14 wells and reservoirs in the Okute area The tunnel construction is believed to have disrupted the flow of spring water to the area JR Tokai has begun work to switch well water to water supply for the community and it has entered negotiations to compensate affected residents the company said it has started to build a well to serve as an alternative water source and is injecting chemicals to reduce the amount of water gushing out from the tunnel construction Groundwater drying up in Gifu near work for maglev tunnel Tunnel collapse causes first death related to maglev train project 90-meter-deep tunnel being bored for maglev Shinkansen Shizuoka leader still at odds over maglev line plan Ministry to issue rare guidance to JR Tokai on maglev project Maglev line in focus as 6 enter race for governor of Shizuoka Information on the latest cherry blossom conditions Please right click to use your browser’s translation function.) 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Volume 15 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.661225 two theories have been proposed for associations underlying conditioned responses (CRs) assumes an association between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and internal representation of an unconditioned stimulus (US) allowing the animal to adjust the CR depending on the current value of the US assumes an association or connection between the CS center and the CR center Whether these theories account for Pavlovian conditioning in invertebrates has remained unclear results of our studies in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus are reviewed We showed that after a standard amount of Pavlovian training crickets exhibited no response to odor CS when water US was devalued by providing it until satiation An increase of behavioral automaticity by extended training has not been reported in Pavlovian conditioning in any other animals but it has been documented in instrumental conditioning in mammals Our pharmacological analysis suggested that octopamine neurons mediate US (water) value signals and control execution of the CR after standard training diminishes with extension of training and hence the CR becomes insensitive to the US value We also found that the nature of the habitual response after extended Pavlovian training in crickets is not the same as that after extended instrumental training in mammals concerning the context specificity Adaptive significance and evolutionary implications for our findings are discussed the question about the nature of associative processes governing the CR has received little attention until very recently in insects I briefly summarize our attempts to characterize associative processes that account for the CR in crickets and propose that associations that are formed by conditioning and govern the CR in crickets are fundamentally similar to those in mammals paired presentations of a strong stimulus to the tail (US) and a gentle tactile stimulus to the siphon (CS) elicit an enhancement of efficacy of synaptic transmission from CS-responding interneurons to motoneurons that produce gill withdrawal response (CR) Figure 1. Two possible versions of Pavlovian conditioning. In Pavlovian conditioning, neural connection or association may develop from the CS center to the US center or from the CS center directly to the response center. The former matches S-S association theory and the latter matches S-R association theory (Mazur, 2017). Pavlov’s stimulus substitution theory (Pavlov, 1927) can be considered as a form of the S-S learning theory little effort has been made to investigate which of these two theories better accounts for the CR Figure 2. Schematic illustration of the effects of US devaluation on execution of a CR after standard (A) and extended (B) Pavlovian training in crickets. Crickets that had received standard training (4-trial × 1-day training) or extended training (4-trial × 3-day training) to associate an odor CS with water US were given water until they stopped drinking prior to the post-training test (Mizunami et al., 2019) crickets that had received standard training exhibited no significant preference for the CS over a control odor (i.e. did not spend a significantly longer time for exploring at the CS odor source than at the control odor source) whereas crickets that had received extended training exhibited a significant preference for the CS over the control odor (i.e. spent a significantly longer time for exploring at the CS odor source) as did control crickets that received no US devaluation before the test Terao et al. (2015) proposed a neural circuit model of Pavlovian conditioning in crickets (Figure 3A) which is assumed to represent the neural circuit of mushroom bodies The model consists of four types of neurons: “CS” neurons that mediate CS signals “CR” neurons that receive excitatory synapses from “CS” neurons and their activation produces a CR and two types of OA or DA neurons that are activated by appetitive or aversive US and make synapses with axon terminals of “CS” neurons One of the two types of OA or DA neurons (“OA1/DA1” neurons) governs conditioning and receives inhibitory synapses from “CS” neurons whereas the other type (“OA2/DA2” neurons) governs execution of a CR and receives excitatory synapses from “CS” neurons The first assumption is that synaptic transmission from “CS” neurons to “OA1/DA1” neurons and that from “CS” neurons to “CR” neurons are enhanced by coincident activation of “CS” neurons and “OA1/DA1” neurons The second assumption is that synapses from “CS” neurons to “OA2/DA2” neurons are enhanced by coincident activation of their pre- and postsynaptic neurons The third assumption is that coincident activation of “CS” neurons and “OA2/DA2” neurons is needed after conditioning to activate “CR” neurons and to produce a CR the crickets exhibited no significant level of preference for the conditioned odor over a control odor Control experiments showed that the loss of preference for the CS is not because water satiation reduced sensory or motor function or motivation necessary to explore odor sources we concluded that crickets do not respond to a CS when crickets are satiated with the US We thus suggested that the CR is guided by US expectancy S-S type learning in which a CR occurs depending on the current value of the US is not rare in insects In fruit flies, in which it has been shown that dopamine (DA) neurons mediate sucrose or water US signals for appetitive conditioning (Liu et al., 2012), optogenetic activation of a specific type of DA neurons after conditioning of an odor with water or sucrose reward produces a CR in hungry or thirsty flies but not in sated flies (Huetteroth et al., 2015) These findings are consistent with our model in crickets It needs to be investigated whether such US-mediating neurons are activated during execution of a CR In order to investigate conditioning parameters that are necessary to make the CR insensitive to US devaluation, we performed 12-trial × 1-day training and 6-trial × 2-day training, the number of trials being the same as 4-trial × 3-day training, and we tested the effect of US devaluation on the CR (Mizunami et al., 2019) indicating that these trainings are not sufficient to make the CR fully independent of the US value The results suggest that a larger number of trainings per se is not the reason for the CR becoming independent of the US value repetitive trainings with sufficiently long intervals are necessary to make the CR insensitive to US devaluation but it is based solely on activation of the S-R pathway after extended training The model predicts that administration of an OA receptor antagonist prior to the post-training test abolishes the CR after standard training but that it has no effect after extended training. The results of our pharmacological study were in accordance with this prediction (Mizunami et al., 2019) We also examined whether conditioning parameters that are necessary to make the CR insensitive to administration of an OA receptor antagonist match the conditioning parameters that are necessary to make the CR insensitive to US devaluation We observed that the CR is abolished at least in part by administration of an OA receptor antagonist in 12-trial × 1-day training and 6-trial × 2-day training This finding is in accordance with our finding that the CR is diminished at least in part by US devaluation in these trainings and is hence in agreement with the model that the model is a conceptual one and how it is implemented in actual neural circuits of the cricket brain needs to be investigated by physiological studies Devaluation-insensitive responses after extended instrumental training in mammals have been termed habitual responses we refer to devaluation-insensitive responses after extended Pavlovian training in crickets as habitual responses formation of a habitual response by extended training can be defined as learned behavior becoming dependent more on the S-R association in both Pavlovian conditioning and instrumental conditioning The reasons for the difference remain to be investigated in which after conditioning of a CS with food US conditioning of the CS with an aversive toxin results in aversion to the food presumably because CS presentation in the second training stage activates representation of food US and this activation produces conditioning of food with the toxin distinctions of the nature of the CR between the Pavlovian conditioning system in crickets and the systems in mammals are evident in that a shift from a goal-directed CR to a habitual (devaluation-insensitive) one by extended training has not been reported in any systems of Pavlovian conditioning in mammals Formation of habitual responses by extended training is a well-established feature of instrumental conditioning in mammals but the nature of their habitual responses differed from those formed in Pavlovian conditioning in crickets as we have discussed Such a difference may reflect different evolutionary histories of Pavlovian conditioning systems in mammals and insects which are evolutionary-basal bilaterian animals Investigations of the effect of US devaluation on execution of a CR in planarians and other invertebrates are needed for obtaining more insights into the evolution of Pavlovian conditioning systems The capability of Pavlovian conditioning can be considered an important cognitive tool shared by many vertebrates and invertebrates that enabled animals to predict future events and to adapt their behavior to changes in the environment Further elaboration of the Pavlovian conditioning system into the S-S associative learning system allowed animals to adjust their behavior in accordance with the changes of their specific needs for the US Such sophistication has 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Read our Privacy and Data Policy Designed and Developed by Arren Marketing Ryo Mizunami has gained a lot of attention from western wrestling fans since her involvement in the AEW Women’s Eliminator Tournament that featured a bracket full of some of the top women’s wrestlers in Japan Defeating popular stars from Tokyo Joshi Pro in Maki Itoh and Yuka Sakazaki, as well as the legend Aja Kong, she earned the right to fly to the US where she defeated former AEW Women’s Champion Nyla Rose on Dynamite, securing herself a Championship match against Hikaru Shida at AEW’s Revolution PPV on March 7th Now although western audiences might be seeing their first glimpses of her thanks to AEW ‘Aniki’ is no stranger to the wrestling scene in her home country Ryo is a 16 year veteran of the business and trained under the legendary Meiko Satomura in GAEA Japan where she made her debut in 2004 against Carlos Amano before later following Meiko to Sendai Girls and faced the likes of Io Shirai and Asuka before their WWE careers Ryo didn’t really make much of an impact until she started working with Pro Wrestling WAVE back in 2009 Ryo picked up her first ever championship by defeating Misaki Ohata in Sendai Girls to win the JWP Junior/Princess of Pro Wrestling Championship having a 257 day reign as the champion until losing it to Hiren Misaki Ohata would eventually become a big part of Ryo’s career The team would pick up tag championships in WAVE and Ice Ribbon during 2016 being a part of the successful MAX VOLTAGE unit in SEAdLINNNG and picking up the biggest championship on offer in Pro Wrestling WAVE Ryo beat Yuu Yamagata in 2016 to capture her first of two Regina Di WAVE championships a reign that lasted 185 days and was brought to an end by Rina Yamashita Almost two years after winning her first championship Ryo beat ASUKA (now known to AEW fans as VENY) for a second reign as Regina Di WAVE champion however this championship reign wasn’t as long and she would eventually drop the title to former tag partner Misaki Ohata Although Ryo was having a thriving career in Japan working for all of the biggest promotions Joshi had to offer it was coming to the time that all wrestlers must face and that was deciding on retirement she was going to retire after 15 years in the business… or maybe not just yet A new and upcoming promotion in the United States called All Elite Wrestling were hosting their first ever PPV called Double or Nothing 2019 and Ryo getting the call up to be a part of the show (teaming up with current AEW Women’s Champion Hikaru Shida and Riho to take on Aja Kong Emi Sakura and Yuka Sakazaki) put all of those retirement plans on hold The call from AEW changed her career plans and Aniki was almost rejuvenated from the experience She wrapped up her dates with WAVE and went fully freelance and, despite the pandemic, still had great matches working with SEAdLINNNG, Gatoh Move/ChocoPro and even the odd appearance for Ice Ribbon At the start of 2021, AEW announced their Women’s Eliminator Tournament featuring a bracket of women in the US and women from Japan speculation started circling around who could be involved and it was a delight to fans to see Ryo returning to AEW once again Ryo faced a fan favourite in Maki Itoh in the first round of the tournament beating her in a great bout that lasted a little over 10 minutes In the second round she managed to knock down the legendary Aja Kong by an incredible count out victory that sent her to face Yuka Sakazaki in the final The woman she already beat in AEW before and this match was no disappointment either. Ryo booked her ticket straight to Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, FL to take on Nyla Rose While Ryo had appeared in AEW before, it was still a pleasant surprise when she did make it all the way to the finals of the tournament. Ryo beat Nyla in a great match on Dynamite to decide that Hikaru Shida would meet Ryo at the upcoming PPV Ryo and Hikaru are no strangers to each other however They have fought with and against each other as far back as 2010 in fact Ryo and Hikaru actually faced each other on Hikaru’s final produce show before heading to AEW The story between these two is huge and with them being some of the best wrestlers that the joshi scene has to offer it’s expected that they will give fans a good taste of what joshi wrestling is all about and maybe even open doors for others in the future Gifu Prefecture—Water in wells and reservoirs have plummeted to alarming low levels in an area near tunnel construction work for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen Line which is building the high-speed rail line confirmed falling water levels at 14 locations in the Okute district of Mizunami city in Gifu Prefecture JR Tokai said it will take steps to secure alternative water sources and provide possible compensation while proceeding with the maglev project Residents in the Okute district said they noticed something unusual around March washing clothes and other daily chores began to gradually decrease at homes along an old road surrounded by rice paddies and forests Some wells and reservoirs have completely dried up and deep cracks have formed in the ground as if it had been exposed to the blazing sun for a long time “I’ve never seen accumulated water dry up like this,” a resident in his 80s said “Many people are anxious about water in the rice paddles.” Although JR Tokai has not confirmed a causal relationship between its excavation work for the tunnel and the lower water levels “Since no other construction work is being done we believe that the (drop in water levels) is due to the maglev construction work,” a representative of the company said JR Tokai said it would cover the costs of switching the Okute community’s water supply from groundwater to a different source The company also said it would dig new wells at two locations and install a water tank to secure alternative water source sites JR Tokai first confirmed a water-level drop in late February at an observation hole installed to gauge the environmental impact from the maglev construction work The company later placed gauges in wells and conducted a study that confirmed water levels had dropped in nine private wells and five water sources and reservoirs The Okute district is located between Nakatsugawa city where a maglev station is expected to be built Construction of a 7.4-kilometer tunnel for the maglev line is under way in the Okute district and digging has reached an area in front of where residents live The maglev line will connect Shinagawa in Tokyo and Nagoya The trains will be able to cover the distance of about 285.6 km in 40 minutes at the fastest Around 86 percent of construction on the route is for tunnels Maglev line starting date still up in the air as costs keep rising Japanese wrestler Ryo Mizunami has been hospitalised due to symptoms developed after testing positive for COVID-19 As per PWInsider Mizunami tested positive for COVID-19 on July 26 and reportedly has started to develop pneumonia from her illness Mizunami is best known for her AEW run earlier this year even challenging Hikaru Shida for the AEW Women’s Championship at the Revolution pay-per-view after winning the Championship Eliminator Tournament She last competed for AEW on Dark: Elevation in April The report confirmed a number of other Japanese stars have tested positive for COVID-19 including SEADLINNNG talents Nanae Takahashi and Honori Hana The rest of the roster produced negative tests Both Takahashi and Hana are recovering at home SEADLINNNG had postponed their show at Shinkiba 1st Ring Ami Miura of ActWres Girl’z has also tested positive Honori Hana and Ami Miura safe and healthy recoveries To make sure you stay updated with all the latest wrestling news, add WrestleTalk.com to your Google Discover feed and follow us on Twitter Volume 8 - 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2017.01027 This article is part of the Research TopicInvertebrate Models of Natural and Drug-Sensitive RewardView all 15 articles Revealing neural systems that mediate appetite and aversive signals in associative learning is critical for understanding the brain mechanisms controlling adaptive behavior in animals it has been shown that some classes of dopamine neurons in the midbrain mediate prediction error signals that govern the learning process whereas other classes of dopamine neurons control execution of learned actions based on the results of our studies on Pavlovian conditioning in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus and by referring to the findings in honey bees and fruit-flies we argue that comparable aminergic systems exist in the insect brain We found that administrations of octopamine (the invertebrate counterpart of noradrenaline) and dopamine receptor antagonists impair conditioning to associate an olfactory or visual conditioned stimulus (CS) with water or sodium chloride solution (appetitive or aversive unconditioned stimulus suggesting that specific octopamine and dopamine neurons mediate appetitive and aversive signals These findings differ from findings in fruit-flies appetitive and aversive signals are mediated by different dopamine neuron subsets suggesting diversity in neurotransmitters mediating appetitive signals in insects We also found evidences of “blocking” and “auto-blocking” phenomena the discrepancy between actual US and predicted US governs the conditioning in crickets and that octopamine neurons mediate prediction error signals for appetitive US Our studies also showed that activations of octopamine and dopamine neurons are needed for the execution of an appetitive conditioned response (CR) and an aversive CR proposed that these neurons mediate US prediction signals that drive appetitive and aversive CRs Our findings suggest that the basic principles of functioning of aminergic systems in associative learning to transmit prediction error signals for conditioning and to convey US prediction signals for execution of CR on account of the fact that the organization of the insect brain is much simpler than that of the mammalian brain Further investigation of aminergic systems that govern associative learning in insects should lead to a better understanding of commonalities and diversities of computational rules underlying associative learning in animals We first deal with the recent debate about whether appetite and aversive signals are conveyed by octopamine and dopamine neurons as has been suggested in honey bees and crickets or whether both appetitive and aversive signals are mediated by dopamine neurons we discuss the results of our studies suggesting (1) that activations of octopamine neurons and activation of dopamine neurons are needed for responding to an appetitive conditioned stimulus (CS) and an aversive CS and (2) that conditioning is governed by US prediction error and that octopamine neurons mediate the prediction error signals for appetitive learning We have established four different conditioning procedures for crickets (Matsumoto and Mizunami, 2000, 2002a,b; Matsumoto et al., 2015). Among them, we used a “classical conditioning and operant testing procedure” (Matsumoto and Mizunami, 2002b; Matsumoto et al., 2003) which is based on the transfer of memory formed during classical conditioning to an operant testing situation Crickets were individually placed in a beaker and deprived of drinking water for 3 days to enhance motivation to uptake water For conditioning of an odor (CS) with water US a filter paper soaked with an odor was presented to the antennae of the cricket for 3 s and then a drop of water was applied to the mouth For conditioning of an odor with sodium chloride US an odor was presented to the antennae and then a drop of 20% sodium chloride solution was applied to the mouth Crickets were eager to drink water when it was applied to the mouth whereas they immediately retracted from sodium chloride solution indicating that the former serves as an appetitive stimulus and that the latter serves as an aversive stimulus Odor preferences of individual crickets were tested before and after conditioning crickets were individually placed in a test chamber and allowed to freely visit two odor sources The time that the cricket spent exploring each odor source with its mouth or palpi was recorded for evaluation of the relative odor preference of each cricket and the two disks were presented simultaneously on the wall of the test chamber for the color preference test we also observed that the MER to vanilla or maple odor is decreased by pairing an odor with sodium chloride MER conditioning allows appetitive conditioning and aversive conditioning to be achieved in a similar experimental situation as in the case of a classical conditioning and operant testing procedure suggest that octopamine codes for appetitive signals and that dopamine neurons transmit aversive signals in two different forms of Pavlovian conditioning in crickets crickets that were injected with octopamine or dopamine receptor antagonist exhibited a normal appetitive or aversive response when water or sodium chloride solution was applied to the mouth these neurotransmitters are not involved in the execution of a behavioral response to appetitive or aversive US The results indicate that octopamine and dopamine neurons convey signals about an appetitive vs thereby suggesting the action of separate neurotransmitter systems to mediate appetitive and aversive signals considered the possibility that dopamine conveys sucrose US but not water US in crickets The third possible reason is that neurotransmitters mediating appetitive signals are not the same in flies and crickets Neurotransmitters involved in appetitive and aversive learning in other species of insects More studies on various species of insects are needed to elucidate the diversity and evolutionary history of the neurotransmitters in mediating appetite and aversive signals in insects The origin of octopamine signaling for mediating appetite signals in crickets remains to be studied we conclude that the execution of appetitive and aversive CRs for olfactory and visual cues requires intact octopaminergic or dopaminergic transmission and (4) coincident activation of “CS” neurons and “OA/DA” neurons in conditioning strengthens the efficacy of synaptic transmission from “CS” neurons to “CR” neurons Our findings suggest that motivational mechanisms that govern the execution of a CR in insects are analogous to those in mammals unambiguous demonstration of the validity of the prediction error theory remains to be achieved The occurrence of blocking and auto-blocking in the same learning system of the same species provides rigorous evidence for validity of the prediction error theory our observation that injection of an octopamine receptor antagonist leads to auto-blocking suggests that reward prediction error signals in crickets are mediated by octopamine neurons Further neuroanatomical and electrophysiological studies of dopamine neurons are needed to elucidate neural circuit mechanisms for 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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited Ryo Mizunami has won the inaugural AEW Women’s World Championship Eliminator Tournament, defeating Nyla Rose in the finals to challenge Hikaru Shida at AEW Revolution Mizunami took on Rose in the tournament finals during the March 3rd edition of Dynamite. Defeating Maki Itoh, Aja Kong and Yuka Sakazaki to win the Japan bracket the master of the Guillotine Drop would execute her diving leg drop finisher for a second time to defeat ‘The Native Beast’ win the tournament overall and secure an AEW Women’s World Championship match on March 7th After the intense bout, reigning champion Hikaru Shida would enter the ring and offer her challenger the tournament’s trophy as well as a handshake Mizunami would show her respect for the champion more aggressively striking her with a stiff forearm strike which Shida returned in kind Shida would ultimately knock Mizunami onto her back after a stiff exchange and held the title over her challenger in a show of dominance It's official! This Sunday, March 7th at #AEWRevolution it's the champion @shidahikaru taking on the challenger @mizunami0324 — All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) March 4, 2021 Revolution will mark Ryo’s 6th match in All Elite Wrestling, having first competed at the company’s inaugural event – Double Or Nothing 2019 – where she picked up a win alongside Riho and Hikaru Shida over Aja Kong Mizunami is currently undefeated in the promotion whilst Hikaru Shida has not lost a match since June 2020 and last fell in singles action all the way back in December 2019 You can check out everything else that went down on the March 3rd episode of Dynamite with our complete results coverage! Saraya, formerly known as Paige in WWE, has once again teased a possible return to the company where she became Divas Champion. Former WWE wrestler Duke "The Dumpster" Droese has been indicted on alleged charges of attempted child exploitation. Logan Paul has jumped Jey Uso after the May 5 episode of WWE Raw went off the air. A former WWE Champion has made their shocking return on the May 5 episode of Raw. "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio is set to defend his recently captured Intercontinental Championship at the upcoming Backlash PLE. This week's WWE Raw featured a Gunther-Pat McAfee confrontation and Jey Uso facing Seth Rollins in the main event. A former WWE champion has competed and won his first match on Raw in over five years. Paul Heyman has explained why he turned his back on Roman Reigns. Volume 9 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01272 This article is part of the Research TopicThe Mechanisms of Insect CognitionView all 25 articles Elucidation of the conditions in which associative learning occurs is a critical issue in neuroscience and comparative psychology between the actual reward and the predicted reward determines whether learning occurs This theory stems from the finding of Kamin’s blocking effect in which after pairing of a stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus (US) conditioning of a second stimulus is blocked when the two stimuli are presented in compound and paired with the same US Whether this theory is applicable to any species of invertebrates We first showed blocking and one-trial blocking of Pavlovian conditioning in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus which supported the Rescorla–Wagner model but not attentional theories the major competitive error-correction learning theories to account for blocking and prediction from the model was tested: the results were consistent with the Rescorla–Wagner model but not with the retrieval theory another competitive theory to account for blocking The findings suggest that the Rescorla–Wagner model best accounts for Pavlovian conditioning in crickets and that the basic computation rule underlying Pavlovian conditioning in crickets is the same to those suggested in mammals results of pharmacological studies in crickets suggested that octopamine and dopamine mediate prediction error signals in appetitive and aversive conditioning This was in contrast to the notion that dopamine mediates appetitive prediction error signals in mammals The functional significance and evolutionary implications of these findings are discussed we briefly review some basic knowledge of computational rules governing Pavlovian conditioning in both vertebrates and invertebrates and their possible neural substrates with a special focus on our recent finding that the error correction learning rule seems to best account for Pavlovian conditioning in crickets Error-correction learning theories to account for blocking whether such coincidence detection mechanisms are sufficient to achieve Pavlovian conditioning in these species remains unclear This model provided the basis to construct a model to account for blocking described in subsequent sections It seems that the neurotransmitter mediating appetitive signals differs in different species of insects although that mediating aversive signals is conserved among insects The results showed that blocking occurs in both appetitive conditioning and aversive conditioning in crickets discrimination of the Rescorla–Wagner model and attentional theories in aversive conditioning remains to be explored The possible applicability of the retrieval theory will be discussed in a later section TABLE 2. Information coded in the responses of “OA1/DA1” neurons in the model of Figure 1 auto-blocking experiments suggest that OA neurons mediate appetitive prediction error signals Subsequent studies also showed auto-blocking in an aversive conditioning experiment. Crickets were first administered with a DA receptor antagonist (flupentixol) before training with Y+ (or before exposure to unpaired presentations of Y and + in the case of the control group). As in the previous case, subsequent Y+ training after animals had recovered from the effect of flupentixol did not result in learning of Y (Terao and Mizunami, 2017) whereas animals in the control group showed an increased aversion to Y The results suggest that the Rescorla–Wagner model or other forms of error-correction learning theories The results of auto-blocking experiments also suggest that DA neurons mediate aversive prediction error signals activities representing the US prediction by the CS (i.e. responses to learned CS) and those representing US prediction error (i.e. less responding to predicted US during paired CS-US presentation after training) are assumed in separate classes of aminergic neurons (i.e. “OA2/DA2” and “OA1/OA1” neurons) for simplification of the model Physiological investigations are needed to clarify the validity of our model Anatomical and physiological characterizations of these OA and DA neurons should pave the way for elucidating the ubiquity and 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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) Posted in: AEW, Sports, TV | Tagged: , , , bringing you live coverage of the next match at AEW Revolution to answer the question of my brilliant colleague Jude Terror I do think Chad McMahon will appreciate the surprise we have for him tonight A video package explains the rivalry that Ryo Mizunami and Hikaru Shida have had outside AEW including the fact that they've wrestled to a draw three times "I've built a bridge between Japan and the world," Shida says "And I'll be the champion that crosses it." We'll find out Hikaru Shida – AEW Women's Championship Match The match starts off fast and soon spills outside the ring where Shida tries to hit a knee strike off a chair but ends up dumped in the crowd Shida and Miznamu do battle as Excalibur attempts to explain the entire context of their feud including various training styles in Japan It's enough to get that Shida and Mizunami are longtime rivals who push each other to the limit and that's exactly what they do in this match Shida takes out Mizunami with a knee to the face to get the three count Nyla Rose lays out Shida after the match and then tries to powerbomb Mizunami and Maki Itoh come out to join Rose in beating down the faces Thunder Rosa comes out to chase off the heels at least the women's division is getting stories now AEW announces Double or Nothing will be at Daily's Place this Summer I pass the baton once again to Chad McMahon AEW Revolution emanates tonight from Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida. Airing on PPV, B/R Live, and Fite (depending on your region) with the Buy-In Pre-Show starting a half-hour earlier and airing on YouTube elsewhere There are eight matches booked for the main card plus on major segment as Paul Wight will reveal AEW's newest signing a "major star in the world of wrestling" according to Tony Khan with Thunder Rosa and Riho teaming up to take on Britt Baker and Rebel the main event sees Jon Moxley challenge Kenny Omega for the AEW World Championship in an Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch The Women's World Championship is also on the line as champion Hikaru Shida defends against the winner of the Eliminator tournament The Young Bucks defend the AEW Tag Team Championships against the Inner Circle's Chris Jericho and MJF In other AEW Revolution matches with championship implications and a mystery competitor (not the same person as Paul Wight's mystery person) will crown a new number one contender for the TNT Championship while a Casino Tag Team Royale match will pit Private Party and Bear Country against each other for a shot at the Tag Team Championships A familiar face is returning to the AEW Women’s division.  Ryo Mizunami announced on Twitter that she is coming back to the United States and will be wrestling for AEW “I’m going to the United States to wrestle AEW again  I’m looking forward to seeing everyone in America” The winner of the AEW Women’s World title eliminator tournament earlier this year Mizunami challenged then-champion Hikaru Shida for the AEW Women’s World Championship at the Revolution pay-per-view on March 7.  Mizunami’s American excursion continued throughout March and April She appeared in a trios match on Dynamite where she teamed with Shida and Thunder Rosa to defeat Britt Baker She also picked up singles wins over Leyla Hirsch plus added three more tag victories to her AEW total on Dark and Dark: Elevation Mizunami last appeared for AEW on the May 3 edition of Dark: Elevation in a losing effort against Abadon.  Mizunami is the current SEAdLNNNG Beyond The Sea Champion She has since made two successful defenses of the title.  Ethan has been covering wrestling and MMA since 2011 He has hosted The Wrestling Life Podcast since 2014 and is a former Baltimore Sun TV/Tribune Media contributor He is also a Baltimore Ravens and Baltimore Orioles fan Ryo Mizunami has stated that she plans to head back to Japan within the month The Japanese star took to Twitter to reveal that her time in the US is almost up Opening up about sometimes feeling annoyed with herself I am very grateful that many people have supported me and I was able to wrestle a match in AEW’s wonderful ring This time I came to the United States and felt a new stimulus for everything and I feel that I am updating myself every day kindness of people….There are many good things But sometimes I can’t do it well and I feel annoyed at myself but sometimes I’m depressed that I can’t get it as a “result.” At such times But I think the various changes that occur to me are further strengthening myself The time left in the United States is limited I want to leave as many “results” as possible #ANIKI🕶 #BTStrip #AEW pic.twitter.com/pToXhfKcuN — 水波綾 (Ryo Mizunami) (@mizunami0324) November 15, 2021 Mizunami last wrestled during the November 12 AEW Dark taping Her match will air on tonight’s (November 16) episode if you’re struggling with your mental health, information on where you can find support is available at this link. Ryo Mizunami is set to make her return to All Elite Wrestling after months away on tomorrow night’s (October 18) episode of AEW Dark The match will feature Mizunami teaming with Red Velvet and KiLynn King to face Nyla Rose This match will be Mizunami’s first for the promotion since she was defeated by Abadon on the April 22 episode of AEW Dark https://twitter.com/Thee_Red_Velvet/status/1449780194185723907?s=20 Several wrestlers from the Japanese wrestling scene have tested positive for COVID-19 Ryo Mizunami, who has been seen in AEW and won the AEW Women’s Title Eliminator Tournament earlier this year, is one on this list. According to PWInsider she tested positive on July 26 and currently is hospitalized Japanese wrestling promotions SEADLINNNG and Sendai Girls’ have already started to postpone shows SEADLINNNG says that Nanae Takahashi and Honori Hana have both tested positive on the same day that Mizunami has The rest of the roster has been tested and everyone else has tested negative Ami Miura from the Actwres girl’Z promotion has also tested positive reportedly on July 27 Diva Dirt sends our best wishes to all those listed above and we hope that everyone gets better soon AEW Dynamite played host to the final of the AEW Women’s World Championship Eliminator Tournament as Ryo Mizunami and Nyla Rose went to battle for the chance to face champion Hikaru Shida at AEW Revolution on March 7th Ryo Mizunami emerged as the tournament winner following a hard-fought battle and will now take on Shida in a highly anticipated match #AEWWomensTournament I won 🏆Thank you so much for your support 😊✨ I was at the mercy of Nayirah's non-standard power but everyone's cheers and feelings of not giving up led me to the victory The party isn't over yet 🔥#AEW #AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/sWHuPPlwII — 水波綾 (Ryo Mizunami) (@mizunami0324) March 4, 2021 Ryo Mizunami won the Japanese bracket to make it to the grand finale.  In the first round, she defeated fan favourite Maki Itoh in a hard-fought contest She then defeated pro wrestling legend Aja Kong in the semi-final of the bracket this was Mizunami’s first singles win over Kong in her 16-year career In the finals of the Japanese bracket Mizunamie defeated former Toyko Joshi Pro Wrestling Princess Of Princess Champion Yuka Sakazaki Rose on the other hand came through the US bracket and handily defeated Tay Conti in the first round she defeated two of AEW’s best as she beat Britt Baker and Thunder Rosa to make her way to the finals of the tournament The former world champion Rose was on the warpath throughout the tournament Following this gruelling tournament AEW’s women’s division now has a top contender as Mizunami seems primed to give Shida the toughest contest of her reign to date Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? Head on over to the LWOS Boards to engage in conversation with fellow fans The event takes place at the Toyota Arena in Ontario WWE started the WWE ID program to help the development of wrestlers on the independent circuit Jey Uso is still the WWE World Heavyweight Champion thanks to a good friend and an enemy of my enemy sort of situation that developed often hosting at least one premium live event per month Gifu Prefecture--A fossil believed to be the bones of the extinct marine mammal Paleoparadoxia was found in the Tokigawa river here on June 10 unearthed more than 80 percent of the skeleton It is reportedly rare to excavate almost the complete form of the ancient creature “I can’t still get over how excited I got when I saw the head bone,” said Yusuke Ando A resident found the fossil of the creature on June 5 while cleaning a riverbed in the Kamadocho district in the city The back side of the body at a length of about 1.8 meters The museum believed the head and other parts of the body would be buried The staff of the museum dug the fossil out by using a large drill and other tools on June 10 The fossilized form is estimated to be 2 meters to 2.5 meters long lived in the period between 28 million years ago and 11 million years ago though its diet and other details remain unknown When more than 50 percent of fossil bones are found More than six whole-body skeletons have been found so far across Japan such as in Saitama and Fukushima prefectures but it is believed to be the first time for a skeleton more than 80 percent complete to be discovered “I would like to spend about two years cleaning the discovered fossil All Elite Wrestling has committed to showcasing the best women’s talent in the world in their women’s division With signings like Nyla Rose and Hikaru Shida they announced a six woman tag match pitting legendary names Aja Kong and Emi Sakura alongside Yuka Sakakzaki as they face young rising star Riho Abe underrated freelancer Shida and a hard hitter Ryo Mizunami this is an insane match that crosses various Joshi companies and showcases veteran talent as well as young talent on the rise To help familiarise people ahead of the show we will run through the six talents involved in the match Aja Kong is a monster that has been a dominant force in the Japanese women’s pro wrestling scene for three decades now.  Kong has some of the most vicious strikes you will ever see having infamously broken her opponents nose on an episode of RAW with a spinning backfist She was one of the biggest stars for All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling (AJW) who helped make women’s wrestling extremely popular in Japan to the point they could easily run shows in the Tokyo Dome she held it for almost 1000 combined days and was a five-time tag team champion Since AJW’s demise Kong has remained one of the biggest stars on the scene and has been a major player in companies like GAEA Japan and Oz Academy as well as making appearances for various other Joshi companies on a rare basis Emi Sakura debuted in 1995 for International Wrestling Association Japan before moving on to AJW and Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) In 2006 when the Joshi scene had lost some of it’s biggest names and companies Emi Sakura helped to form Ice Ribbon where she would discover her talent for training As a trainer Sakura has had a big impact on the Joshi scene as she has trained many extremely talented women passing on her experience and technical expertise She left Ice Ribbon in 2011 and set up the unique Gatoh Move where she has spent the rest of her career as a wrestler Sakura has a wealth of experience and a bright personality but don’t let that fool you she can manipulate her opponent’s body in so many ways A five year veteran that has spent her entire career with Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW) While TJPW is mostly a character based promotion Sakazaki is one of the stronger in-ring workers in the promotion She is a former Princess Of Princesses Champion as well as a two time and current tag team champion for the promotion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1wbPdUjaM Long regarded as one of the most underrated members of the Joshi independent scene Hikaru Shida has been an extremely useful freelance talent for Japanese promotions What sets her apart from so many other Joshi wrestlers is her charisma and badass look If there is one Japanese women’s wrestler that could succeed in the US it’s Shida she has won titles in various companies from Ice Ribbon to Oz Academy and had classic matches with the likes of Aja Kong Has been known as a tag specialist at times in her career as she has had eleven different reigns as a tag team champion in five different companies but is equally as strong on her own in singles competition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9C_ZYCf4U4 A fourteen-year veteran who may be known to US fans for her appearances in SHIMMER Trained by the legendary Meiko Satomura she is one of the hardest hitters currently going in the Joshi scene She has an eye-catching look and a natural charisma that will help her excel in the US Is a two time Regina Di WAVE Champion in her home promotion of WAVE and wrestled all over the Joshi scene for the likes of Ice Ribbon Sendai Girls and almost every other company in the scene Aja Kong is a hard hitter but Ryo Mizunami can go toe to toe with the monster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaQ59REU1BE A 21-year-old with 12 years of wrestling experience Riho was trained by Emi Sakura and Nanae Takahashi Riho has always been pushed and booked by Sakura which means she has almost one thousand matches under her belt at the age of 21 Her current reign as Super Asia Champion in Gatoh Move is about to approach 600 days as she has been at the top of the promotion since it’s debut in 2011 Riho shared the ring with Kenny Omega who has been a big part of putting together the women’s division for AEW so he knows first hand just how talented she is AEW’s women’s division is one of the most exciting aspects of the company and matches like this are the reason why and talent on the rise get to showcase their talent on a big stage and prove that the Women’s Revolution isn’t just in the WWE Stay tuned to the Last Word on Pro Wrestling for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world Gifu Prefecture--Two friends out for a stroll in the countryside here chanced upon a partially buried iron-glazed four-eared ceramic pot thought to date to the Muromachi Period (1336-1573) a find hailed by archaeologists as extremely rare The pair were walking in this central Japan city’s rugged Ryugin-kyo gorge when they came across the almost intact artifact the municipal Mizunami Ceramic Museum said The museum is exhibiting the earthenware pot through May 22 measures 28.5 cm across at its widest part and boasts a striped pattern which yielded an ear-shaped protuberance characteristic of a four-eared pot Kudo and Yokoyama had previously taken part in an excavation of a burial mound and immediately notified the museum of their find Researchers said the pot was likely produced in the Seto area of Aichi Prefecture in the early or mid-15th century during the Muromachi Period by stacking rings of clay coils How the pot ended up in such a remote location remains a matter of conjecture as no historical records exist of homes or other structures ever having been built in the area Experts noted that there were no signs the pot was once covered with a lid way as a container of sacred writings or other objects but its purpose remains unknown,” said Shinji Sunada “It has a carefully finished surface,” Sunada added “It is extremely rare to unearth an artifact of this type in such excellent condition.” Nagoya exhibit hosts decorative whisky bottles made in Japan Gifu fossils may provide clues to evolution of seals Decimal system in use in Japan well over 2,000 years ago JR Central announced on May 16 that they suspended maglev chuo shinkansen tunnel construction due to depleting water levels in local wells in Mizunami S/ JR Central President Niwa Shunsuke/ We have caused a troubling predicament to residents of Okutecho Mizunami due to the depleted water levels of wells and other water sources.  The railway company confirmed that 14 locations including communal water sources and private wells Some were found to be completely dried and unusable.  JR Central President Niwa Shunsuke said that the tunnel excavation might have impacted the water levels They will conduct a soil boring test and perform preventative construction to stop the flow of spring water.  another town in Gifu Prefecture said they will not discuss the transfer of excess soil with JR Central until they receive an explanation and prevention strategy for the incident in Mizunami.  JR Central commented that they would like to properly explain the situation.  About Nippon Television Gifu Prefecture--Fossils uncovered here are thought to offer a key to resolving how seals and walruses went their separate ways in evolution A lower jaw fossil of a pinniped was found in strata dating back 18 million years as work got under way for a road improvement project Subsequent excavations unearthed other remains from what is presumed to be the same animal said it is very rare for fossilized parts from a single animal’s head and body to be found in close proximity from strata as old as 18 million years The remains were found in a soil layer dating from the Miocene epoch of the Neogene period of the Cenozoic era A full-scale excavation began after the lower jaw fossil was discovered on Sept who heads a group at the National Museum of Nature and Science researching evolutionary history and is also a professor of mammal paleontology at the University of Tsukuba He determined it was from an animal close to the Enaliarctos Officials at the Mizunami Fossil Museum said the fossils indicate the animal was about two meters long which might help researchers determine the gender of the animal and the actual species it could represent a new genus and species In response to questions from The Asahi Shimbun Kohno labeled the discovery as outstanding “The fossils were preserved in extremely good condition other fossil remains were found after an extensive excavation of the site following the initial discovery,” Kohno said He said the findings may well play a very important role in understanding the evolutionary process Noting that the fossils were the first found in Japan of a pinniped from that geological era Kohno was excited at the prospect that the remains came from a single animal Having an idea of the entire skeletal structure of the creature would prove very helpful in understanding how it moved on land as well as how it swam Kohno said the fossils will be enormously helpful in gaining a clearer understanding of the evolutionary process of pinnipeds in the early stages when the clade separated into seals and walruses The four fossils displayed at the news conference will be displayed at the main entrance hall to the Mizunami Fossil Museum from Oct Fossils show yet another dolphin species had lived in Gunma Fossil found in Iwate confirmed to be ancient shark ancestor Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker the “cafe in the sky” here has set up a helipad to attract customers from neighboring Aichi Prefecture was remodeled from a villa built about 50 years ago Visitors can enjoy great views of the Central Japan Alps as well as high-rise buildings in Nagoya on some occasions said he came up with the idea for the helipad after learning that a restaurant in the prefecture was using one to receive customers from urban areas He asked a pleasure flight company if a helipad could be built at his cafe The cafe manager invited about 50 local residents for a completion ceremony on May 5 A chopper took off and landed there during the event is open to public use in times of disaster It will also be used as a venue for yoga classes “I want to use the helipad as a springboard to make the cafe an entertaining place,” Mizoguchi said He expects demand from participants of lunch tours hosted by the pleasure flight company Man cremated with air tickets that saved him from ’85 disaster Pictures taken aboard doomed 1985 flight offer a silent message This waterfront cafe only opens ‘when the sunset is beautiful’ Mountaintop swing rekindles joy of watching Heidi TV series Please view the main text area of the page by skipping the main menu. The page may not be displayed properly if the JavaScript is deactivated on your browser Japanese version Fans attending the SHIMMER Women Athletes and NCW Femmes Fatales’ tapings in late October/early November are in for a treat – joshi star Ryo Mizunami has just been announced as a debutante for both promotions [notice]”Ryo Mizunami comes to us from the Pro-Wrestling WAVE promotion in Japan through the assistance of the Joshi 4 Hope office Mizunami made her wrestling debut in 2004 for GAEA but would later get the bulk of her early experience under the guidance of Meiko Satomura at SENDAI Girls’ Pro-Wrestling beginning in 2007 Mizunami has an array of suplexes in her arsenal Not only will Mizunami be a part of SHIMMER 49-52 in Berwyn but she will also participate in NCW Femmes Fatales X on November 3rd in Montreal to complete her first tour of North America.”[/notice] Indeed – NCW Femmes Fatales has announced her match for their tenth show, a singles match vs. Courtney Rush Mizunami joins fellow joshi star Hiroyo Matsumoto as the only other Japanese talent announced for both companies’ events in October/November so far NCW has announced that Hiroyo will take on LuFisto in a rematch from their bout on SHIMMER Volume 31, and that the “Pink Flash” Kira faces a great challenge when she takes on Mercedes Martinez As NCW are following a format similar to SHIMMER in November they will be taping two DVDs worth of action and these matches are in addition to the already announced LuFisto vs They have also announced that their next events will take place on March 30 2013 *** SHIMMER will tape volumes 49-52 on October 27 and 28th at the Berwyn Eagles Club in Berwyn, IL. General admission tickets for the SHIMMER 49-52 events are still available, and can be purchased online right now by visiting http://www.shimmerwrestling.com/ and ordering by PayPal