Sensory areas are spontaneously active in the absence of sensory stimuli. This
spontaneous activity has long been studied; however, its functional role remains largely …

Making inferences about the computations performed by neuronal circuits from synapse-
level connectivity maps is an emerging opportunity in neuroscience. The mushroom body …

Using odors to find food and mates is one of the most ancient and highly conserved
behaviors. Arthropods from flies to moths to crabs use broadly similar strategies to navigate …

Dopamine plays a central role in motivating and modifying behavior, serving to invigorate
current behavioral performance and guide future actions through learning. Here we examine …

Suppressing sensory arousal is critical for sleep, with deeper sleep requiring stronger
sensory suppression. The mechanisms that enable slee** animals to largely ignore their …

In neural networks that store information in their connection weights, there is a tradeoff
between sensitivity and stability,. Connections must be plastic to incorporate new …

In dynamic environments, animals make behavioural decisions on the basis of the innate
valences of sensory cues and information learnt about these cues across multiple …

Movement-correlated brain activity has been found across species and brain regions. Here,
we used fast whole brain lightfield imaging in adult Drosophila to investigate the relationship …

Animal behavior is shaped both by evolution and by individual experience. Parallel brain
pathways encode innate and learned valences of cues, but the way in which they are …

Dopaminergic neurons with distinct projection patterns and physiological properties
compose memory subsystems in a brain. However, it is poorly understood whether or how …