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Decision-making: A new role for insect mushroom bodies
1School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|October 10, 2023
Abstract:
Mushroom bodies are neural structures that are ubiquitous in insect brains, where they integrate sensory inputs to encode stimulus identity and meaning. A new study now adds action selection - decision-making - to those roles.
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