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Martin Giurfa1, Catherine Macri2
1Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), University of Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France; Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France.
Current Biology : CB
|June 7, 2022
Abstract:
A recent study revealed neural mechanisms underlying visual trace conditioning in flies. To associate visual stimuli with heat punishment, the activity of visual- and heat-processing circuits was extended into the gap between them. Distractors delivered during the gap disrupted learning, raising the question of the cognitive processes at play.

