How does the brain process sensory stimuli and use this information to direct appropriate behaviors?
The goal of our research is to determine how odors and sounds are encoded within the fly brain and to understand how these representations constitute a percept of the environment — a percept the fly uses to make important behavioral choices (eg, to navigate towards a sweet-smelling odor, or to mate with a fly singing a conspecific courtship song). Drosophila, with its relatively simple nervous system, well-studied behaviors, amenability for in vivo electrophysiology, and large genetic and molecular toolkit offers an ideal system in which to examine questions about sensory coding.
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