Genetic intervention in the fly Drosophila melanogaster has provided strong evidence that
the mushroom bodies of the insect brain act as the seat of a memory trace for odours. This …

Research over the past century has revealed the impressive capacities of the honeybee,
Apis mellifera, in relation to visual perception, flight guidance, navigation, and learning and …

Sentience–the ability to feel, perceive and experience–is central to the animal welfare
debate as it raises the question of whether animals experience suffering in life and death …

Highlights•Visual and multimodal memory of locations could be stored in the mushroom
bodies.•Central complex provides aspatial reference frame for integration of directional …

This paper presents a detailed characterisation of locomotor behaviour of a single
Drosophila fly freely walking in a small square arena. Locomotor activity is monitored by a …

Golgi impregnations reveal a variety of dendritic morphologies amongst Kenyon cells in the
mushroom bodies of Drosophila melanogaster. Different morphological types of Kenyon …

▪ Abstract Flies can learn. For the past 25 years, researchers have isolated mutants,
engineered mutants with transgenes, and tested likely suspect mutants from other screens …

Extracellular recording were performed from mushroom body-extrinsic neurons while the
animal was exposed to differential conditioning to two odors, the forward-paired conditioned …

The mushroom bodies are distinctive neuropils in the protocerebral brain segments of many
protostomes. A defining feature of mushroom bodies is their intrinsic neurons, masses of …

Although a variety of basic insect behaviours have inspired successful robot
implementations, more complex capabilities in these'simple'animals are often overlooked …