Dopamine neurons that inform Drosophila olfactory memory have distinct, acute functions driving attraction and aversion.

The brain must guide immediate responses to beneficial and harmful stimuli while simultaneously writing memories for future reference. While both immediate actions and reinforcement learning are instructed by dopamine, how dopaminergic systems maintain coherence between these 2 reward functions is u...

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Published in:PLoS Biology
Main Authors: Farhan Mohammad, Yishan Mai, Joses Ho, Xianyuan Zhang, Stanislav Ott, James Charles Stewart, Adam Claridge-Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-11-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002843