# brain: learning on the fly (in D. melanogaster and mammals)

AA << have developed a new computational model that demonstrates a long sought after link between insect and mammalian learning (..)   Incorporating anatomical and functional data from recent experiments, Dr James Bennett and colleagues modelled how the anatomy and physiology of the fruit fly's brain can support learning according to the reward prediction error (RPE) hypothesis. >>️

<< The computational model indicates how dopamine neurons in an area of a fruit fly's brain, known as the mushroom body, can produce similar signals to dopamine neurons in mammals, and how these dopamine signals can reliably instruct learning. >>️

Learning on the fly. University of Sussex. May 7, 2021. 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210507093941.htm

Bennett, J.E.M., Philippides, A.,  Nowotny, T. Learning with reinforcement prediction errors in a model of the Drosophila mushroom body. Nat Commun 12, 2569. doi: 10.1038/ s41467-021-22592-4. May 7,  2021. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22592-4   

Also

(+) keyword 'melanogaster' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=melanogaster

(+) Voli a casaccio. Notes. Oct 01, 2006. (quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2006/10/2066-voli-casaccio.html