Neural circuits carry out complex computations that allow animals to evaluate food, select
mates, move toward attractive stimuli, and move away from threats. In insects, the …

Sour has been studied almost exclusively as an aversive taste modality. Yet recent work in
Drosophila demonstrates that specific carboxylic acids are attractive at ecologically relevant …

Dietary salt detection and consumption are crucial to maintaining fluid and ionic
homeostasis. To optimize salt intake, animals employ salt-dependent activation of multiple …

The brain generates internal representations that translate sensory stimuli into appropriate
behavior. In the taste system, different tastes activate distinct populations of sensory …

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 …

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 …

Sensory biology: The bitter aftertaste Page 1 navigational ‘error’ that may cause extreme
long-distance vagrancy akin to the pipits of Dufour and colleagues6 is ‘reverse migration’4,11 …

Neural circuits carry out complex computations that allow animals to evaluate food, select
mates, move toward attractive stimuli, and move away from threats. In insects, the …

Understanding how neural circuits underlie behaviour is challenging even in the era of the
connectome because it requires a combined approach encompassing anatomical and …