Learning and Memory: How memories are encoded in the brain of the fruit fly

Published: March 3, 2021, 10 a.m.

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When thinking of tiny fruit flies, one doesn\\u2019t usually have their brainpower in mind. But even these small insects, like all animals, can learn behaviours in response to different stimuli.
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Prof Andr\\xe9 Fiala studies the learning behaviour of fruit flies, aiming to dig deeper into the computational principles underlying the encoding of learned information.\\xa0

Find more from Prof Fiala at his University of Goettingen website, and follow him on Twitter.\\xa0

Read the original paper this episode is based on : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.03.010

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