A number of single gene mutations dramatically reduce the ability of fruit flies to learn or to
remember. Cloning of the affected genes implicated the adenylyl cyclase second …

Fruit flies selectively orient toward the visual stimuli that are most salient in their
environment. We recorded local field potentials (LFPs) from the brains of Drosophila …

A mechanistic study of consciousness need not be confined to human complexity. Other
animals also display key behaviors and responses that have long been intimately tied to the …

Associative strength between conditioned stimulus (CS) and unconditioned stimulus (US) is
thought to determine learning efficacy in classical conditioning. Elucidation of the neuronal …

This is the introduction of Drosophila into the study of learning and memory affected by
removal of the geomagnetic field (GMF) for successive generations. Using the operant visual …

It has been evidenced that vision-based decision-making in Drosophila consists of both
simple perceptual (linear) decision and value-based (non-linear) decision. This paper …

Mushroom bodies (MBs), one of the central brain structures in Drosophila melanogaster, are
involved in several cognitive behaviors, such as olfactory learning and memory, visual …

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a diurnal insect active during the day with
consolidated sleep at night. Social interactions between pairs of flies have been shown to …

Dopamine is a major neuromodulator in both vertebrates and invertebrates and has
profound effects on many physiological processes, including the regulation of attention. Most …

Attentional selection implies preferential treatment of some sensory stimuli over others. This
requires differential representation of attended and unattended stimuli. Most previous …