Re:Map of an Insect’s Brain
by causality0 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @03:32PM
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Do they learn? What behaviors make a fruit fly larva more intelligent than a jellyfish?
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Re:Map of an Insect’s Brain
by moonbreams on Sunday March 12, 2023 @06:15PM
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Well granted they're solving quadratic equations, but neither are the adults.
For instance, if you expose larvae a rewarding stimulus like sugar along with an odour, they will later be attracted to that odour. That is by definition learning, simple learning, but we have to start somewhere i guess.
Interestingly there is some evidence that the memory lasts through to the adult stage, despite the fact that a lot of the brain is actually rewired during pupation.
Re:Map of an Insect’s Brain
by causality0 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @07:00PM
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Interesting, with the caveat that the odor/reward experiment was performed on larvae at a development stage with 10,000 neurons, not 3,000.