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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Edinburgh
A model of non-elemental olfactory learning in Drosophila
<28> Originality: An advanced computational model of the olfactory circuit for learning in insects, using a novel learning rule; compared to behavioural data from our companion paper (Young et al, 2012, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory) on non-elemental learning in flies.
Significance: Led directly to invitation to contribute the only modelling chapter in the comprehensive review volume "Invertebrate Learning and Memory" (2013, editors Menzel and Benjamin), and a successful FET-Open proposal ‘MINIMAL’.
Rigour: Formalises a complete model of the neural circuitry at the single spiking neuron level, tested with realistic input in a range of complex learning paradigms.