What do the mushroom bodies do for the insect brain? Twenty-five years of progress

A Fiala, KR Kaun - Learning & Memory, 2024 - learnmem.cshlp.org
In 1998, a special edition of Learning & Memory was published with a discrete focus of
synthesizing the state of the field to provide an overview of the function of the insect …

Prediction error drives associative learning and conditioned behavior in a spiking model of Drosophila larva

AM Jürgensen, P Sakagiannis, M Schleyer, B Gerber… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Predicting reinforcement from sensory cues is beneficial for goal-directed behavior. In insect
brains, underlying associations between cues and reinforcement, encoded by dopaminergic …