Heisenberg's Roadmap Guides our Journey to the Small Cognitive World of Drosophila

Professor Martin Heisenberg is one of the pioneers in the exploration of neuroethology. With his inspiration and earnest help, we employed the fruitfly as a model system to investigate the underlying neural mechanism of cognitive behaviors. Here, we recalled the help from Martin in the early years a...

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Published in:Journal of neurogenetics 2009-01, Vol.23 (1-2), p.100-103
Main Authors: Guo, Aike, Zhang, Ke, Peng, Yueqing, Xi, Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Behavior, Animal - physiology
Brain - physiology
Cognition - physiology
decision making
Decision Making - physiology
Drosophila - physiology
pattern recognition
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
selective attention
visual cognition behavior
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Summary:Professor Martin Heisenberg is one of the pioneers in the exploration of neuroethology. With his inspiration and earnest help, we employed the fruitfly as a model system to investigate the underlying neural mechanism of cognitive behaviors. Here, we recalled the help from Martin in the early years and introduced some findings from our lab about visual cognition behaviors in Drosophila, such as decision making, selective attention, and experience-dependent visual pattern recognition. From the results so far, the circuit composed of mushroom bodies, central complex, and dopaminergic neurons may play an essential role in these behaviors.
ISSN:0167-7063
1563-5260
DOI:10.1080/01677060802483788