A single sensory cue can elicit diverse behavioral responses. For example, the taste of
sugar robustly promotes feeding1, 2 but also influences other behaviors, such as altering …

Animals use gustatory information to assess the suitability of potential food sources and
make critical decisions on what to consume. For example, the taste of sugar generally …

Odors are intimately tied to the taste system to aid food selection and determine the sensory
experience of food. However, how smell and taste are integrated in the nervous system to …

Drosophila melanogaster feeds mainly on rotten fruits, which contain many kinds of sugar.
Thus, the sense of sweet taste has evolved to serve as a dominant regulator and driver of …

Taste cues regulate immediate feeding behavior, but their ability to modulate future behavior
has been less well studied. Pairing one taste with another can modulate subsequent feeding …

Foraging behavior is essential for the survival of organisms as it enables them to locate and
acquire essential food resources. In Drosophila, hunger triggers a distinct search behavior …

A fundamental question in sensory processing is how different channels of sensory input are
processed to regulate behavior. Different input channels may converge onto common …

The gustatory system provides vital sensory information to determine feeding and appetitive
learning behaviors. Very little is known, however, about higher-order gustatory circuits in the …

Taste detection and hunger state dynamically regulate the decision to initiate feeding. To
study how context-appropriate feeding decisions are generated, we combined synaptic …

An organism's behavioral decisions often depend upon the relative strength of appetitive
and aversive sensory stimuli, the relative sensitivity to which can be modified by internal …