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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2018

Do the right thing: neural network mechanisms of memory formation, expression and update in Drosophila.

Paola Cognigni, Johannes Felsenberg, Scott Waddell

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 137 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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137citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

137 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  14. Finding a path: local search behavior of Drosophila larvae.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025
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  20. Twists to Classical Conditioning of AdultCold Spring Harbor protocols · 2025
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77 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Paola CognigniCentre for Neural Circuit and Behaviour, University of Oxford, Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Johannes FelsenbergCentre for Neural Circuit and Behaviour, University of Oxford, Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Scott WaddellCentre for Neural Circuit and Behaviour, University of Oxford, Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road, Oxford, United Kingdom. Electronic address: scott.waddell@cncb.ox.ac.uk.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 200846/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When animals learn, plasticity in brain networks that respond to specific cues results in a change in the behavior that these cues elicit. Individual network components in the mushroom bodies of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster represent cues, learning signals and behavioral outcomes of learned experience. Recent findings have highlighted the importance of dopamine-driven plasticity and activity in feedback and feedforward connections, between various elements of the mushroom body neural network. These computational motifs have been shown to be crucial for long term olfactory memory consolidation, integration of internal states, re-evaluation and updating of learned information. The often recurrent circuit anatomy and a prolonged requirement for activity in parts of these underlying networks, suggest that self-sustained and precisely timed activity is a fundamental feature of network computations in the insect brain. Together these processes allow flies to continuously adjust the content of their learned knowledge and direct their behavior in a way that best represents learned expectations and serves their most pressing current needs.

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AnimalsBrainComputer SimulationDrosophilaLearningModels, NeurologicalNeural PathwaysNeurons

Identifiers

PMID29258011
PMCPMC5981003

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