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Making sense of sensory connections: Researchers identify mechanism behind associative memory by exploring insect brains
January 26, 2012 by NewsBot
A key feature of human and animal brains is that they are adaptive; they are able to change their structure and function based on input from the environment and on the potential associations, or consequences, of that input. To learn more about such neural adaptability, researchers have explored the brains of insects and identified a mechanism by which the connections in their brain change to form new and specific memories of smells.