Cognition by a mini brain

Randolf Menzel () and Martin Giurfa ()
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Randolf Menzel: the Freie Universität Berlin
Martin Giurfa: the Freie Universität Berlin

Nature, 1999, vol. 400, issue 6746, 718-719

Abstract: During evolution and development all brains started off small. So, it is realistic to assume that elementary forms of cognition might be present in small brains, such as that of the fruitflyDrosophila melanogaster. A study using molecular genetics and behavioural analyses now indicates that the fruitfly can, indeed, carry out quite complex neural tasks, and that it uses a central brain structure (the so-called mushroom bodies) to do this.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/23371

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