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Nathan Buerkle1, James M Jeanne1
1Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|November 23, 2021
Abstract:
A new study combines electrophysiology, optogenetics, and behavior to investigate a decision-making circuit in the fly brain, revealing all the major features predicted by drift-diffusion models. Strikingly, much of this computation takes place subthreshold, independent of action potentials.
