Common principles for odour coding across vertebrates and invertebrates

KA Fulton, D Zimmerman, A Samuel, K Vogt… - Nature Reviews …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The olfactory system is an ideal and tractable system for exploring how the brain transforms
sensory inputs into behaviour. The basic tasks of any olfactory system include odour …

Diverse memory paradigms in Drosophila reveal diverse neural mechanisms

AS Dwijesha, A Eswaran, JA Berry… - Learning & …, 2024‏ - learnmem.cshlp.org
In this review, we aggregated the different types of learning and memory paradigms
developed in adult Drosophila and attempted to assess the similarities and differences in the …

Neurotransmitter‐Mediated Plasticity in 2D Perovskite Memristor for Reinforcement Learning

Y Wang, S Chen, X Cheng, W Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The neuromorphic computing architecture is a promising artificial intelligence for
implementing hierarchical processing, in‐memory computing, event‐driven operation and …

Combinatory actions of co-transmitters in dopaminergic systems modulate Drosophila olfactory memories

D Yamazaki, Y Maeyama, T Tabata - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023‏ - jneurosci.org
Dopamine neurons (DANs) are extensively studied in the context of associative learning, in
both vertebrates and invertebrates. In the acquisition of male and female Drosophila …

Diversity of visual inputs to Kenyon cells of the Drosophila mushroom body

I Ganguly, EL Heckman, A Litwin-Kumar… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The arthropod mushroom body is well-studied as an expansion layer representing olfactory
stimuli and linking them to contingent events. However, 8% of mushroom body Kenyon cells …

Skewing information flow through pre-and postsynaptic plasticity in the mushroom bodies of Drosophila

C Pribbenow, D Owald - Learning & Memory, 2024‏ - learnmem.cshlp.org
Animal brains need to store information to construct a representation of their environment.
Knowledge of what happened in the past allows both vertebrates and invertebrates to …

An integrative sensor of body states: how the mushroom body modulates behavior depending on physiological context

R Suárez-Grimalt, ICG Kadow… - Learning & …, 2024‏ - learnmem.cshlp.org
The brain constantly compares past and present experiences to predict the future, thereby
enabling instantaneous and future behavioral adjustments. Integration of external …

Neuronal circuit mechanisms of competitive interaction between action-based and coincidence learning

E Rozenfeld, M Parnas - Science Advances, 2024‏ - science.org
How information is integrated across different forms of learning is crucial to understanding
higher cognitive functions. Animals form classic or operant associations between cues and …

Crossmodal association between visual and acoustic cues in a tortoise (Testudo hermanni)

M Loconsole, G Stancher, E Versace - Biology Letters, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Humans spontaneously match information coming from different senses, in what we call
crossmodal associations. For instance, high-pitched sounds are preferentially associated …

Exploring the memory: existing activity-dependent tools to tag and manipulate engram cells

B Pang, X Wu, H Chen, Y Yan, Z Du, Z Yu… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
The theory of engrams, proposed several years ago, is highly crucial to understanding the
progress of memory. Although it significantly contributes to identifying new treatments for …