Mark Konishi, one of the grand old men in behavioral neurosciences, described the goals of neuroethology as follows:

“In our study of the (acoustic prey localization) of the barn owl we moved freely across the interface between behaviour and neurophysiology. The most important philosophical and practical problem was to design both behavioural experiments which would reveal the attributes of the underlying neuronal mechanisms and physiological experiments which were relevant to the behaviour under study. On several occasions our physiological observations led us to fruitful behavioural experiments and these, in turn, helped generate new ideas for useful physiological investigations”(Konishi 1983).

These sentences have been the guidelines for my own research, and even after about three decades of research, it is highly exciting for me to “move freely across the interface” to examine the relations between neuronal function and natural behaviour.