Moths with a Nose for Learning

Friday, October 3, 2008 - 08:28 in Mathematics & Economics

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that when training insects to respond to smells, the interval between the signal, or odor, and the reward--delicious sugar water--is everything.

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