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Smells like learning

Margaret Osborne — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:00:33 +0000

Order wine at a fancy restaurant, and the sommelier might describe its aroma as having notes of citrus, tropical fruit, or flowers. Yet, when you take a whiff, it might just smell like … wine. How can wine connoisseurs pick out such similar scents? ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Associate Professor Saket Navlakha and Salk...

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First direct evidence for synaptic plasticity in fruit fly brain

Communications Department — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:00:41 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Scientists at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) have resolved a decades-long debate about how the brain is modified when an animal learns. Using newly developed tools for manipulating specific populations of neurons, the researchers have for the first time observed direct evidence of synaptic plasticity—changes in the strength of connections between...

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Approach or buzz off: Brain cells in fruit fly hold secret to individual odor preferences

Jennifer Michalowski — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:38:08 +0000

Responding appropriately to the smell of food or the scent of danger can mean life or death to a fruit fly, and dedicated circuits in the insect’s brain are in place to make sure the fly gets it right. Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Responding appropriately to the smell of food or the scent of...

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Neuron ‘claws’ in the brain enable flies to distinguish one scent from another

Communications Department — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:00:57 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Think of the smell of an orange, a lemon, and a grapefruit. Each has strong acidic notes mixed with sweetness. And yet each fresh, bright scent is distinguishable from its relatives. These fruits smell similar because they share many chemical compounds. How, then does the brain tell them apart? How does the brain remember...

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The discerning fruit fly: Linking brain-cell activity and behavior in smell recognition

Communications Department — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:00:53 +0000

It takes as few as 25 brain cells for a fly to characterize and distinguish among odors Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Behind the common expression “you can’t compare apples to oranges” lies a fundamental question of neuroscience: How does the brain recognize that apples and oranges are different? A group of neuroscientists at Cold...

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CSHL neuroscientists show activity patterns in fly brain are optimized for memory storage

Peter Tarr — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:31:34 +0000

Large-scale imaging shows mushroom body activity patterns are sparse and randomly distributed Cold Spring Harbor, NY — We know from experience that particular smells are almost inseparable in our minds with memories, some vague and others very specific. The smell of just-baked bread may trigger an involuntary mental journey, even if for a moment, to childhood,...

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