On smelling your way to the fruit with ring models - with Katherine Nagel - #40
About this episode
The episode discusses how fruit flies use short-term memory and odor input to navigate towards fruit, exploring theoretical models and experimental methods.
Fruit flies need a short-term (working) memory to keep their direction when they navigate their way to the fruit by smelling. Mean-field ring models was theoretically suggested to encode stimulus orientations 30 years and was observed in fruit-fly compass neurons 10 years ago. But how does odor input come into the picture to set the compass course? The group of the guest has studied the question with a host of different experimental and theoretical methods.
People in this episode
Host: Gaute Einevoll
Guest: Katherine Nagel
Topics covered
- neuroscience
- memory
- navigation
- odor input
- experimental methods
Keywords
- fruit flies
- working memory
- navigation
- odor input
- mean-field ring models
- compass neurons
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: fruit flies, mean-field ring models, fruit-fly compass neurons
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