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Distinct memory traces for two visual features in the Drosophila brain.
Nature - 2 Feb 2006
Liu Gang, Seiler Holger, Wen Ai, Zars Troy, Ito Kei, Wolf Reinhard, Heisenberg Martin, Liu Li
Abstract excerpt
The fly Drosophila melanogaster can discriminate and remember visual landmarks. It analyses selected parts of its visual environment according to a small number of pattern parameters such as size, colour or contour orientation, and stores particular parameter values. Like humans, flies recognize patterns independently of the retinal position during acquisition of the pattern (translation invariance). Here we show...
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