Behavioral flexibility is critical to survival. Animals must adapt their behavioral responses
based on changes in the environmental context, internal state, or experience. Studies in …

Addiction is a progressive and complex disease that encompasses a wide range of
disorders and symptoms, including substance use disorder (SUD), for which there are few …

Highlights•In the wild, perception of informative olfactory cues can be obscured by
concurrent odors.•Experience-dependent changes can tune detection and encoding of …

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 …

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 …

Animals form sensory associations and store them as memories to guide behavioral
decisions. Although unimodal learning has been studied extensively in insects, it is …

To survive in changing environments, animals need to learn to associate specific sensory
stimuli with positive or negative valence. How do they form stimulus-specific memories to …

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 …

The brain constantly compares past and present experiences to predict the future, thereby
enabling instantaneous and future behavioral adjustments. Integration of external …

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