Fly brains reveal neural pathway by which outside stimuli become behavior

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 20:30 in Biology & Nature

Fruit fly brains have been used by researchers to capture the process by which the brain identifies behaviorally useful information in the external environment and uses it to determine our actions. The results provide a clear diagram of the stimulus-to-behavior neural process that is frequently carried out by human brains, but has been difficult for scientists to study.

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