New Brain Component in <i>Drosophila</i> Memory Formation (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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New Brain Component in <i>Drosophila</i> Memory Formation (1 of 2)

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Anterior montage view of a Drosophila brain within its head capsule, showing part of the olfactory associative long-term memory retrieval circuits. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 10, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.-C. Chen at National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and colleagues was titled, “Visualizing Long-Term Memory Formation in Two Neurons of the Drosophila Brain.”

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