Learn: fruit flies, brains and learning

There is real science behind the fly in Flyling. These articles explain, with sources, how fruit flies live, how their brains work and how they learn. Türkçe

Articles

• How long do fruit flies live? The life cycle from egg to adult
  Egg, larva, pupa and adult; how temperature changes development; and where kitchen fruit flies come from.
• How does a fly brain work? A small world of 140,000 neurons
  How vision, smell, learning and navigation work in a brain of about 140,000 neurons, and how decisions reach the muscles.
• What is a connectome? The wiring map of a brain
  How a wiring map is made; milestones from worm to fly; what the map tells you and what it doesn't.
• How do flies learn smells? The mushroom body and memory
  The T-maze experiment, the role of dopamine in the mushroom body, and how spaced repetition builds long-term memory.

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