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Background:

  • Animals use innate and learned sensory cue information for behavioral decisions.
  • The interplay between innate stimulus valence and learned information acquisition in memory remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how innate sensory valence influences learned information acquisition and memory dynamics.
  • To elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying memory formation and regulation in Drosophila.

Main Methods:

  • Time-lapse in vivo voltage-imaging of neural spiking in over 500 flies.
  • Olfactory associative conditioning experiments.
  • Computational modeling constrained by fly connectome and experimental data.

Main Results:

  • Protocerebral posterior lateral 1 dopamine neurons (PPL1-DANs) bidirectionally encode innate and learned valences.
  • Dopamine signals regulate memory storage and extinction in mushroom body output neurons (MBONs).
  • Specific PPL1-DANs control short-term memory, while others gate long-term memory formation based on integrated valence.

Conclusions:

  • The mushroom body integrates innate and learned valences in parallel units for flexible learning.
  • Dopamine signals mediate circuit interactions between short- and long-term memory traces.
  • This mechanism may be conserved in other species, including vertebrates.