1. Insect Olfaction: Telling Food from Foe
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Michael-John Dolan, Paavo Huoviala, and Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis
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Olfactory perception ,Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all) ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) ,fungi ,Context (language use) ,Sensory system ,Anatomy ,Carbon Dioxide ,Insect olfaction ,Biology ,Olfactory Perception ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Drosophila melanogaster ,Odorants ,Mushroom bodies ,Biological neural network ,Animals ,Female ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,Neuroscience ,Mushroom Bodies - Abstract
SummaryThe same sensory signal can be interpreted differently according to context. A new study in Drosophila uses cell-type-specific tools to identify neural circuits that integrate context during olfactory processing and surprisingly implicates memory-recall neurons.
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- 2015
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