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Learning and memory refers to the processes of acquiring, retaining and retrieving information in the central nervous system. It consists of forming stable long-term memories that include declarative (recall of events and facts) and nondeclarative (conditioning, skill learning) forms.
Neurons in the hippocampus of Egyptian fruit bats modulate their activity during a spatial reward task depending on the identity of the human experimenter at the goal location. A separate subpopulation of neurons carries significant spatial information about the positions and identities of humans traversing the same environment while bats are stationary.
The Drosophila mushroom body, a well-studied olfactory learning center, also receives visual input with unknown function. Here, the authors leverage the FlyWire connectome to identify and characterize properties of visual inputs to the mushroom body.
Neurons in the hippocampus of Egyptian fruit bats modulate their activity during a spatial reward task depending on the identity of the human experimenter at the goal location. A separate subpopulation of neurons carries significant spatial information about the positions and identities of humans traversing the same environment while bats are stationary.
Sabine Krabbe describes a 1993 study of classical conditioning in the honeybee that provided early insights into the mechanisms of predictive learning.